There are complex procedures involved in jewelry making exercised based on the kind of designs, materials to be used, and equipment to be employed.
some common jewelry-making techniques are :
1. Beading
Method: To make necklaces, bracelets and earrings women hang the beads using a wire, thread or cord in a continuous manner.
Materials: I need beads, stringing wire or beading thread, clasps and crimp beads.
Tools: Necklace wire cutting, crimp beads (green), needle nose pliers, round nose pliers.
2. Wire Wrapping
Method : Coiling fine wire around stone, beads or other parts of jewelry to produce desired patterns.
Materials: Jewelers wire or copper, silver, or gold filled, beads, stones.
Tools: Rounded nose pliers, flat nose pliers, wire cutters.
3. Metal Stamping
Method: From the top, this process is known as copper rolling, utilizing metal stamps to make pictures, letters or just an image on metal shirt pockets by pounding the stamp on the metal.
Materials: The metal blanks (brass, copper, and sterling silver); the stamping tools.
Tools: Hammer, metal stamp, steel block all are manufacturing tools.
4. Casting Method:
Melting metal for the purpose of making jewelry then using the mold in order to cast the jewelry.
One again detailed designs require a method known as lost-wax casting.
Materials: Beeswax, plasters, metals (gold, silver, brass).
5. Soldering Method:
Smallest category of joining various pieces of metal through use of solder at the region of contact and the process where the solder is heated until it melts and wets the surface of the joined metals.
Materials: Silver, gold and copper pieces, solder, flux. Tools: Lighting equipment, a soldering pad, a pickling bath.
6. Filigree Method:
Creating exquisite patterns from a thin wire by rolling, bending, or joining it with other metal wire.
Materials: Thin metal wire with silver and gold color. Tools: Scissor, tweezers, soldering item.
7. Hammering and Texturing Method:
Hammering or bounding on the surface of the metal to produce some form of texture on the jewelry item. Materials: Metal sheets or wires.
Tools: Chasing hammer, ball-peen hammer, texture plates, anvils.
8. Stone Setting Method: This refers to the manner in which gemstones are set in metal which should be in a manner most secure.
Types of Settings: Big faceted setting, small faceted setting, invisible setting, close grain setting.
Materials: Gemstones, metal settings.
Tools: Utility knife, fine twist: edging, prongs pusher, engravers: several, tweezers.
9. Enameling
Method: The application of colorful patterns on the surface of the metal by using the process of fusible powdered glass.
Materials: Enamel powder, metal. Tools: A kiln, a torch, enamel sifter, a spatula.
10. Chainmaille
Method: Connecting the metal rings in such a way that they form chains or like gentle suits of armor.
Materials: Aluminum rings, sterling silver rings, goldfilled rings.
Tools: Flat nose/chain nose pliers – preferably two pairs, you’ll use these types of pliers the most throughout the project.
11. Resin Casting
Method: Dispersing liquid resin into necessary molds and subsequently allowing it to set, and this occus in curing processes, flowers or stones could be the objects that were put in the resin.
Materials: Epoxic or UV varnish, silicon forms, ornaments (dry flowers, beads).
Tools: UV light (only for UV resin), the mixing cups, stirring sticks, the heat gun.
These techniques enable designers to produce diverse styles of jewelries from simple to the most profiled designs.
Regardless of the technique, others are tools, material, and skills while others are knowledge techniques, skills, and material.
