Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist

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

Your Turn • reader comments & sketches

Their Turn • a gallery of this issue’s contributors

Ever-Evolving Displays • What makes them effective changes with time, place, and the artist

The Business Side • Running your show is easy with these non-bench tools

Lessons Learned • How their own education shapes the way jewelry instructors teach today

Be Your Own School • A guide to building your own jewelry making curriculum

focus on… education

Look Through It • Create a peekaboo opening in a hollow shank ring, then add stones

Color of the Sea • Aquamarine invites you to dive right in

The Uncut Version • Build a ring with a funky aquamarine

TRUE BLUE

The Snow Queen • Inspiration delivered on a fierce winter wind

Earth from Above • Display our enchanting planet as a celestial object represented in three layers of riveted titanium

Friendly All Around • Safety starts in your shop… and spreads throughout the environment

Say It with Jewelry • Statement pieces focused on the earth

Wild Caught • Tips for field collecting — when you collect treasures directly from the earth with your own hands

Onyx Economics • An American quarry has been producing for a century

Facets • news & product innovations

Noël Yovovich