In every issue of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist you’ll get hands-on expertise, illustrated demos, and projects loaded with valuable tips and design ideas to inspire your own metal jewelry designs. Plus our experts answer all your technical questions, and you’ll learn the pros’ favorite tools and how to use them.
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Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist
Design Challenges • Your Design Riffs Designs based on projects and jewelry shown in previous issues of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist.
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Their Turn a gallery of this issue’s contributors
The Winners! • Interweave’s new Jewelry, Bead and Gem Arts Awards make a splash
2020 Basics
Virtual Holidays • Adapting trunk shows to live video
Wonderful Wire • Wild about wire? These tools and supplies will truly inspire!
Alexa Protects • Wire weaving and jasper combine in a shield-like pendant
Dropping In • Unexpected tourmaline drops add color to a simple chain maille grid
Rhodes To Empire • The founder of the modern De Beers organization set his sights not on a diamond cartel but on world domination
PAY IT FORWARD • Three women jewelry artists of color celebrate their art and advocate for change
Giving Back • Collaborative play benefits makers and more
Listen to Our Brand-New Jewelry podcast!
Painterly Patterns • What does Picasso Stone suggest to you?
Just the Facts
Above & Beyond • Extend the natural patterning in a Picasso stone into its silver frame in a reversible pendant
Big & Weird at Tucson • The world’s greatest “gem” show also showcases some very strange things
Cultured Bismuth Crystal • Create a copper flower with an iridescent center
Facets • news & product innovations
focus on… education
Robert Lopez