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  • C
  • Working with chains and chainlinks to create jewelry.
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  • G
  • Working with gold to create jewelry, either by itself or it concert with stones, minerals, other metals, etc.
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  • J
  • An individual jewelry piece being worked on by an artist.
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  • L
  • A person who works with stone, primarily gemstones. Also used as an adjective to describe the shop, the kind of material, and the equipment used in cutting stones.
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  • M
  • From Easy Metal Clay : Hadar Jacobson's Gradient Pendant What is metal clay, anyway? How often does a brand-new craft medium come on the scene? Not very--but it's happened to us. Metal clay is a dramatic, new hybrid medium that in some ways is
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  • What is metalsmithing? We define metalsmithing as "creating jewelry through the manipulation of various metals." Those manipulations or metalsmithing techniques include fabricating metal jewelry by forming and shaping it with hammers, mandrels
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  • Using two or more jewelry-making media -- such as metal, wire, stone, resin, clay, etc. -- to create a single piece of jewelry.
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  • S
  • Working with silver to create jewelry, either by itself or it concert with stones, minerals, other metals, etc.
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  • Using heat to combine metals and other materials in the creation of jewelry.
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  • Placing stones with metal to create a variety of jewelry forms.
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  • T
  • The wide variety of tools available to create jewelry include pliers, hammers, torches, saws, and many, many more.
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  • W
  • Wire wrap is a hand fabricated method of jewelry design and creation. It involves the use of tools to bind and twist wires together. Some of the basic techniques include twisting the wire, wrapping a wire bundle, crimping or flattening the wrap, scrolling
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