About this item
This comprehensive and ambitious workshop reference for jewelers brings together a vast range of skills, techniques, and technical data into one volume. Offering detailed explanations and step-by-step photography to demonstrate procedures, this handbook includes a complete reference section featuring tool shapes, an index of gems, a glossary, standard sizes and measurements, conversion tables, and an extensive list of resources. Additionally, the manual offers a directory of tools and materials—including a key to identifying tools for a “beginner’s kit”—a historical introduction to jewelry, and suggestions for photographing and promoting completed pieces. Remarkable cutting-edge pieces by jewelry makers and designers from around the world are used to illustrate the various processes involved in creating exceptional jewelry.
About the Author
Anastasia Young is a practising jeweler and artist whose work has been exhibited internationally. Her jewelry is renowned for its dark, challenging themes and technical complexity. Examples of her work are held in the Science Museum, London and Central Saint Martins Museum.
Anastasia is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, where she lectures and teaches short courses in jewelry making.
In 2017, Anastasia was appointed to the board of The Association for Contemporary Jewellery, and is also the Technical Features Editor of the ACJ's biannual magazine, Findings.
