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

by Anastasia Young

Gemstone Settings is the most in-depth, technical guide to stone setting. Jewelry makers will enjoy an encyclopedic overview, which 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 about stones and metals--including their suitability, gorgeous photos and illustrations for visual support, what makes a design wearable and durable, and detailed information on pre-made versus handmade settings.

Step by step, 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.