Jewellery designers design and often make jewellery using a variety of materials, including gold, silver and precious stones. We even design and plan pieces that can have great sentimental significance or symbolic meaning, can be wearable or are decorative artefacts in their own persepective. We retail sale a combination of the lines of jewelry, such as diamonds and other precious stones mounted i
n precious metals as rings, bracelets, and broaches; sterling and plated silverware;
Making activities include:
1. Mounting - making the framework for the piece of jewellery. This involves handling, forming and drilling metal, and opening out holes in which to place the selected gems;
2. Model making (casting) - making an object or decorative detail using a mould;
3. Stamping and presswork;
4. chasing - making a raised pattern on the surface of the metal;
5. Polishing - ensuring the finish of the piece.
6. Stone setting - making adjustments to the mount to ensure the stones fit perfectly. This can involve very intricate work, such as removing tiny fractions of metal;
7. Electro-plating - layering a precious metal onto a base metal;
8. Enamelling - fusing powdered glass to metal in a kiln to create coloured patterns and pictures;
9. Welding - joining pieces of metal using traditional methods or by laser;
10. Engraving - carving lettering or patterns into precious metals by hand or by computer-aided manufacture.
