The ancient; highly skilled craft of manipulating gold; silver; precious; and semi-precious stones into jewelry is here set forth in a practical text. The authors take you through a graded series of problems; progressing from simple to complex pieces; teaching you all you need to know along the way.Making a pierced brooch is the first problem. You learn to affix a tracing of the design to the metal; and to handle a center punch; saw frame and saw; needle file and flat-round file; and emery cloth. This first problem is fully illustrated; as are all the problems; with 53 different design ideas; as well as photographs of the tools and processes involved. Subsequent problems teach you to make brooches set with stones; chased and repousseacute; brooches; wire pendants; rings with four different types of settings; chains; and cuff links. Executing these pieces teaches you the processes of soldering; pickling; using a gas jet and blow pipe; making a plain and shouldered bezel; annealing; enameling; making a mold for casting; and much more.Following the section on the making of jewelry; the authors turn to a discussion of the aesthetics of jewelry design. They suggest sources in nature and in art for creative ideas and motifs; and give helpful methods for developing these into designs suitable for various types of jewelry pieces.The authors; both formerly of the Rhode Island School of Design; animate every line of the text with the knowledge that only long experience in the craft and in teaching the craft can give. For many years; beginning and experienced crafters have kept this authoritative text beside them; using it to avoid costly mistakes and to save many hours of trial-and-error experimentation.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Tinkering with dams.By lyndonbrechtIf you are interested in dams; this should interest you. It is one of the "Objekt" series. I found it to be interesting but the writing is not up to the usual standard of this series--a judgment call; of course. It also focuses a bit too much on the UK. The photos are good; but not so good as usual in the series. It is full of interesting information. There isnt so much on design and operation of dams.The book is best; I think; on the Aswan dams on the Nile. There is also a chapter on challenges to dam-building projects. Turpin writes that with increasing concern about global warming; hydropower may make a comeback and so; more dams.