Feb 12, 20246 min read
Pricing for Success | Jewellery
Getting your pricing right is critical for Jewellers to have a successful business, our blog provides essential pricing tips to help you ass
Oct 6, 20234 min read
How to protect your Jewellery Designs (Intellectual Property)
Intellectual Property (IP) refers to anything created from thought, any kind of artistic or literary work, in real terms your creative work
Mar 2, 20235 min read
Be an Ethical Jeweller - Making a Start
Information for Jewellers or small Jewellery Brands for making a start become more ethically minded when purchasing precious metals.
Jul 5, 20222 min read
INSIDER Trade Tips | Soldering onto Curved Surfaces
Video Watch | An effective solution for precision soldering adjacent jewellery components directly onto a curved surface.
Apr 3, 20223 min read
How to Create an Ethical Statement
Find out how to create an ethical statement for your jewellery website to supporting what your ethical commitments as a Jeweller are.
Mar 4, 20225 min read
How to find a Retailer for your Jewellery
You are more likely to be successful in your approach to a retailer of any kind if your work fits in with the type of products they sell bec
Apr 13, 20213 min read
10 Tips for Jewellery Workshop Reclamation
10 Tips for Jewellers on effective workshop practice for collecting precious metal waste to earn money from jewellery workshop reclamation
Mar 3, 20214 min read
The Shape of Words: A Jeweller's Superpower
Lydia Niziblian is a contemporary jeweller who has a unique sensory relationship with the world which informs her love of texture and...
Jan 29, 202113 min read
A Jewellery Designer's Guide to Cut Styles for Gemstones
With coloured gemstone cutting now more decorative and elaborate you could be missing out on important design benefits, our guide provides
Jan 9, 20214 min read
New Year | Moving forward Creatively
This is an overwhelming question for many Jewellers and Creatives at the beginning of a New Year. Taking a small step into learning a new..
Jan 4, 20213 min read
Why Jewellery repair work needs experienced hands
How to determine if you have the right skills for Jewellery Repair work.
Oct 27, 20203 min read
New Book: Colour & Textures in Jewellery
Within this book, you will find a range of techniques and materials which can be used to bring excitement, meaning and interest to your jewe
Sep 20, 20202 min read
INSIDER Trade Tips | Remote Ring Sizing
The rise of online jewellery sales has magnified the issue of remotely obtaining accurate ring sizes from customers. Jeweller Paul Gilfilla
Jun 23, 20203 min read
Tips | Simple Jewellery Photography on a White Background
These four tips are tried, tested and provided to help you get started creating simple jewellery images for use on your website, social medi
Apr 16, 20206 min read
5 Essential Tips for Creating a Brand
If you want to appeal to customers they'll be looking for branded professional messaging across the board in order to trust you and what
Apr 3, 20201 min read
INSIDER Trade Tips | Making Jewellery Clasps & Fittings
...provides diagrams for Jewellers that show the patterns and sizes for some popular Jewellery clasps, fittings and findings
Dec 30, 20193 min read
How to Learn Jewellery Making
Essential tips for Jewellery beginners on the best way to get started. All you need to know from a Jeweller and Industry training consultant
Dec 8, 20192 min read
Strategic Jewellery Design Naming : Think Sales, Exposure & Credibility
How to choose a name for a Jewellery range or project name is more important than you think if you want it to helpfully benefit the outcome
Nov 21, 20193 min read
The Secret to Customer Loyalty
Discovering your customer's actual need to buy rather than the initial want with careful questioning will give you the best chance for a
Jul 25, 20193 min read
The Artisan & The Fountain Pen
Why create and design writing instruments? This important choice was influenced by my experience of a traditional bench skills apprenticeshi
Jan 7, 20196 min read
The Fascinating Life of a Master Polisher
During my years of Polishing I have looked after The Royal Family Silverware, worked on pieces belonging to Sultans and Kings from far and w
Sep 26, 20182 min read
INSIDER TRADE TIPS | How to Anneal Fine Silver/Gold Wire
This is my tip for annealing fine silver or gold wire perfectly throughout its length without hard spots or overheated areas which will show
Feb 19, 20181 min read
Jewellery - Tool Story
Tweezers, mine are very valuable to me, they are not just a useful tool they also belonged...
Oct 20, 20173 min read
How to turn your Jewellery Designs into reality
If you have a sketch or concept for a jewellery design you want to make, here are some time saving tips to help you get an idea of how...
Sep 21, 20171 min read
New Book: Tales from the Toolbox | Narrative Jewelry
I highly recommended this new book from Contemporary Goldsmith Mark Fenn: his book showcases jewelry from a wide range of exciting narrative
Jul 31, 20172 min read
What is Chasing & Repoussé?
A decorative surface is created on sheet metal by using steel punches which are driven into or along in a linear style the surface of the sh
May 14, 20171 min read
INSIDER Trade Tips | Identifying Platinum
Jewellery Industry expert Jurgen Maerz shares this neat little trick for recognising if a piece of jewellery is Platinum or not.
Apr 16, 20172 min read
Face to Face | Why mentoring works
Are you making the most of your potential as a jeweller? If not a mentoring session with an experienced Jewellery professional could provide
Nov 7, 20162 min read
INSIDER | 5 Tips to Safeguard your Jewellery Workshop
How secure is your workshop? During busy seasonal making periods, take care not to become complacent with your security. Take a moment...
Oct 13, 20162 min read
An Intriguing Idea for October
For this blog I thought I would share my own design process on an unusual project. Working to Gallery deadlines is tough I am completely...
Sep 11, 20161 min read
How much does a 3D Printing course cost?
You should pay according to the expertise of the tutor, to be the best you should learn from the best if possible. Learning from someone...
Jul 15, 20162 min read
Jewellery Making | Hand-skills or CAD?
Tips for deciding to use tradition or technology for making jewellery.
Jun 12, 20162 min read
Enterprising or Apathetic - How does your creative business rate?
When you are working hard in your creative businesses, generating designs, new product development or making for shows, exhibitions and...
May 15, 20161 min read
Enamelling for Jewellery
Q What is Enamelling? Enamelling is the art of applying richly coloured powdered glass to the surface of metal and firing with heat...
May 1, 20161 min read
Get Stonesetting 'Tips of the Trade'
Getting practical help with troublesome stonesetting issues can be difficult for makers working alone, however but help is now at hand....
Apr 26, 20164 min read
How to be a Jewellery Designer
Having great product design is just the start of your journey, these tips answer important questions for your jewellery making dreams.
Apr 22, 20162 min read
Hand-in-Hand: Tradition & Innovation?
Innovative technology now available in the jewellery industry can benefit jewellers very successfully when used alongside traditional...
Dec 10, 20154 min read
Are you Customer Service Savvy?
Customer satisfaction is critical to the success of your creative business, because understanding and adapting to the needs of customers...
Sep 26, 20151 min read
What is Mokume Gane?
Mokume Gane' is the ancient Japanese silversmithing technique of layering or laminating different coloured metals together permanently to...
Sep 6, 20152 min read
INSIDER Trade Tips : Colouring Anodised Aluminium
Colouring Anodised Aluminium is quite a technical process, any deviation from the correct procedure can leave you with a disappointing...
Aug 15, 20151 min read
What is Laser Marking/Engraving?
Laser Marking is sometimes referred to as Laser Engraving which uses the power of a laser. The laser beam laser beam precisely alters the...
Jul 26, 20151 min read
What is Polymer Clay?
This clay like material is a useful and interesting choice for any Jeweller to consider for as an additive material for a contemporary...
Jul 12, 20151 min read
INSIDER Trade Tips : Polishing Platinum
The properties of Platinum can make it a very difficult metal to polish, trade polisher Stephen M Goldsmith shares this quick tip with...
Jun 24, 20152 min read
INSIDER Trade Tips : Burnishing
What is Burnishing? Hand Burnishing jewellery or silverware creates a polished finish using the friction created by continuously pressing...
Jun 4, 20151 min read
What is a Gravermax?
The useful bit of kit is used by hand engravers and stonesetters to take the strain out of working metal by force of hand. I have had a...
Apr 26, 20152 min read
Source of Inspiration?
Where does your source of inspiration come from? For me contemporary architecture is a rich source of three dimensional design. My...
Apr 15, 20151 min read
What is Keum Boo?
Keum Boo (also known as Kum-Boo) is the ancient Korean jewellery technique of richly surface embellishing precious metals with 24ct gold...
Feb 11, 20152 min read
What is CAD?
CAD is Computer Aided Design. Designing with CAD can help you develop and adapt your design work with ease and be used as part of quick,...
Jan 28, 20151 min read
What is Diamond Mounting?
​​ Q If Diamond mounting is not about mounting or setting diamonds into jewellery - then what is this technique? Diamond Mounting is the...
Jan 20, 20152 min read
One-to-One; A better way to learn?
Seeing a Jewellery Industry professional practise their expertise and skills in their workshop environment could give you the best...