The Craft Of Silversmithing

Download or read book Silversmithing written by Rupert Finegold and published by Krause Publications Craft. This book was released on 1983 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the basic tools, materials, and techniques of the silversmith includes discussions of the procedures for creating bowls, trays, flatware, and other items.

Download or read book The Craft of Silversmithing written by Alex Austin and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a fresh look at the ancient craft of silversmithing with 18 projects that teach a solid body of skills. This full-color, comprehensive manual provides artisans with a thorough understanding of silver’s properties: what it is and how it behaves. Beginning, intermediate, and advanced techniques are explained and then applied to craft amazingly beautiful items, from accessories to wearables and extraordinary gifts. Use brushing, sawing, piercing, and polishing procedures to fashion a simple bud vase. Progress to a baby rattle or candleholder created with soldering, sinking, dapping, and forging techniques. Ultimately you’ll have the expertise to complete a martini set, lidded container, or teapot. The art of silversmithing has never been easier or more enjoyable.

Download or read book Silversmithing for Jewelry Makers written by Elizabeth Bone and published by Interweave. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your expert techniques with a silver lining! A comprehensive guide, Silversmithing for Jewelry Makers details techniques, surface treatments, and innovations specifically designed for all jewelry makers working in silver, and especially focuses on the needs and interests relevant to metal-jewelry artisans. Explore basic skills as well as specialist techniques, including filigree, chasing, annealing, engraving, etching, casting, and much more. Plus, profiles of contemporary practitioners are included in every section, along with galleries illustrating a range of beautifully crafted finished works. The handy resource section also features a how-to for selling jewelry in the contemporary accessories market. Experienced jewelry makers interested in either exploring silver for the first time or taking their silver jewelry to the next level will love this harmonious marriage between expert silversmithing advice and a jewelry artisan sensibility.

Download or read book Creative Gold- and Silversmithing written by Sharr Choate and published by Crown. This book was released on 1988-12-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is the definitive book on jewelry making and other customized pieces of metalcraft, covering the subject completely and containing many hundreds of how to drawings and photographs. It is a must for beginning gold and silversmiths and an indispensable reference for the experienced craftsman artist."--Dust jacket.

Download or read book Indian Silversmithing written by W. Ben Hunt and published by Echo Point Books & Media, LLC. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. Ben Hunt's Indian Silversmithing offers a rich history of this southwestern Native American craft and provides an invaluable reference manual for crafters and hobbyists who want to learn and practice the art themselves.

Download or read book Small-Scale Silversmithing written by F J Whitelaw and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silversmithing is an exciting and developing craft, which combines traditional techniques with contemporary design and technology. This practical book introduces the craft with a guide to the workshop and its tools, then emphasises the importance of drawing and design before explaining key techniques and showing how they can be used in clearly illustrated projects. By keeping the individual pieces small, it explains a range of skills that can be developed and combined to make more adventurous items. It discusses transforming silver sheets or rods into three-dimensional shapes using sinking, raising and forging techniques. It teaches how to silver solder and attach handles to the rounded body of a bowl and create well-fitting seams. Nine projects illustrate the techniques in use and include making spoons, round boxes, hinged lids, drinker beakers and candlesticks.

Download or read book Form Emphasis for Metalsmiths written by Heikki Seppä and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A master artist and teacher of metalwork presents a bold new approach to creative expression in metal. Believing that the time has come for the artist to free himself from the functional forms that have dominated the metalsmith's craft -- the cup, the box, the pitcher, etc. -- Heikki Seppä urges the craftsman to create in terms of pure form, and in this book he shows him how...The book is profusely illustrated throughout with the author's own sketches of the ideas and techniques discussed. It will be of significant value to the accomplished craftsman as well as to teachers and advanced students of this exciting and growing art form." --P. [4] of cover.