Jewellery Making Design Silver Goldsmithing 10 Book DVD

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Jewellery Making & Design, Silverwork and Goldsmithing

This is a collection of 10 classic books (in PDF format) on Jewellery Making & Design, Silverwork and Goldsmithing. Each PDF Reprint is an electronic facsimile version of the actual book published in around 1900s.

PDF Reprint #1

484 Pages

A Textbook of Jewelry Making and Design

The subject of jewelry is treated in this book from an educational standpoint, and is presented as a series of progressive lessons consecutively arranged from the simple to the complex. The authors have tried to present the subject in a way that will be helpful to those who are beginning the work and to suggest ideas for those who have passed beyond the amateur stage.

PDF Reprint #2

180 Pages

Modern Design in Jewellery and Fans

John Ruskin has laid down some broad and simple rules which are especially applicable to Design in Jewellery and Fans. He says, "Never encourage the manufacture or any article not absolutely necessary, in the production of which invention has no share." And, again, "Never encourage imitation, or copying of any kind, except for the sake of preserving records of great works."

PDF Reprint #3

495 Pages

Silverwork and Jewelry

A Textbook for Students and Workers in Metal

This book does not deal with the history of the jeweler's art. It is intended as a practical guide to some of the more simple processes of the craft. The worst fault of such a textbook, intended in the first place for students, would be vagueness. The author has attempted to avoid this by describing the operations of each process consecutively from beginning to end. This of necessity causes a certain amount of repetition, but anything is better than doubt.

PDF Reprint #4

229 Pages

English Jewellery

From the 5th century A.D. to 1800

For the purposes of this book jewellery has been defined as including all ornaments of wrought or jewelled metal actually worn on the person. This definition excludes such jewelled objects as croziers, snuff-boxes, and the like, that are not worn but carried. Limits of time are also necessary, and for these the V century A.D. and the year 1800 have been chosen, as marking definite breaks in the artistic history of the country.

PDF Reprint #5

455 Pages

Antique Jewelry and Trinkets

With 142 Illustrations

The book treats upon a subject which is interesting to every home connoisseur. There is a peculiar charm about the jewellery of former generations, those things men and women have treasured and worn, or fondly handled as having had personal touch with those who died long ago.

PDF Reprint #6

301 Pages

The Arts & Crafts of Our Teutonic Forefathers

Containing 32 Maps and 130 Illustrations

This volume contains the substance of the Rhind Lectures delivered by the writer before the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in the spring of 1910. The aim of it is to afford a general introduction to the study of the art of our Teutonic forefathers, in the eventful period in which they overthrew the Roman Empire of the West, and began to found the political system of the modern world.

PDF Reprint #7

274 Pages

Gilda Aurifabrorum

A history of English goldsmiths and plateworkers,

and their marks stamped on plate with 2500 Illustrations

The former work of the writer, entitled "Hall Marks on Gold and Silver Plate," has been so extensively patronised by the public as to call for six editions since the date of its first appearance in 1863, supplying a most important aid to Amateurs and Collectors of Old Plate, enabling them to ascertain the precise date of manufacture by the sign manual of the Goldsmiths' Company, stamped upon it when sent to be assayed. That it has been generally appreciated is evident from the fact that it is to be found in the hands of every leading Goldsmith in the United Kingdom, as well as Amateurs and Possessors of family plate.

PDF Reprint #8

279 Pages

The Goldsmith's Handbook

Containing full instructions for the alloying and working of gold

This goldsmith's handbook has included the art of alloying, melting, reducing, colouring, collecting and refining; the processes of manipulation, recovery of waste; chemical and physical properties of gold; with a new system of mixing its alloys; solders, enamels, and other useful rules and recipes.

PDF Reprint #9

506 Pages

Jewellery

With the exception of a chapter dealing with Egyptian jewellery, the author has confined himself solely to Europe. The work falls into four main divisions. The first deals with the jewellery worn during classical times, and until the ninth century of our ear. The second treats of the jewels of the Middle Ages. The third is devoted to the jewels of the Renaissance, and the fourth includes those of subsequent times.

PDF Reprint #10

68 Pages

Gold and Silversmiths Catalogue 1911

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