Gemstone Settings: The Jewelry Maker's Guide to Styles & Techniques

by Anastasia Young

This encyclopedic overview gives jewelry makers an in-depth, technical guide to stone setting.

Gemstone Settings features an extensive summary of stone-setting and techniques for creating beautiful gemstone jewelry, from basic bezels and prongs to pave, carre, clusters, and numerous others – including cold joins, precious metal clay, settings for fragile stones, and settings that allow the stones to move.

You'll also discover detailed information, photos, and illustrations about stones and metals – including their suitability, what makes a design wearable and durable, and in-depth details on pre-made versus handmade settings.

With step-by-step instructions, learn how to set your most beloved precious, semiprecious, and organic stones with projects that range from elegant diamond masterpieces to earthy pearl or coral everyday favorites.

Genres: Jewellery, Jewellery Making, Art, Nonfiction, Crafts

208 pages, Hardcover

First published March 6, 2012

Reviews

[Ligaya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful, plentiful photographs and clear, concise explanations make this an excellent reference book! The jewelry examples are sometimes magnificent and grandiose, sometimes stunning and simple. The step-by-step instructions make you think you can actually do the projects and achieve the photographed, professional-looking results. One minor criticism is that I wish the Stone Shapes Reference section would have been in the front of the book. It would have cleared up a lot of questions. This is going on my "To Buy" list.

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I work for a jewelry company and wanted to learn more about the creation of it. I learned a lot more than I anticipated. The pictures of jewelry in the book are also really interesting. I wanted to share them with my friends every few pages.

[Falco Peregrinus · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a great book with very complete information, it's a must for jeweler's workshop library.