Getting your pricing right is critical for Jewellers to have a successful business, our blog provides essential pricing tips to help you ass

Intellectual Property (IP) refers to anything created from thought, any kind of artistic or literary work, in real terms your creative work

Information for Jewellers or small Jewellery Brands for making a start become more ethically minded when purchasing precious metals.

Video Watch | An effective solution for precision soldering adjacent jewellery components directly onto a curved surface.

Find out how to create an ethical statement for your jewellery website to supporting what your ethical commitments as a Jeweller are.

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

10 Tips for Jewellers on effective workshop practice for collecting precious metal waste to earn money from jewellery workshop reclamation

Lydia Niziblian is a contemporary jeweller who has a unique sensory relationship with the world which informs her love of texture and...

With coloured gemstone cutting now more decorative and elaborate you could be missing out on important design benefits, our guide provides

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..

How to determine if you have the right skills for Jewellery Repair work.

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

The rise of online jewellery sales has magnified the issue of remotely obtaining accurate ring sizes from customers. Jeweller Paul Gilfilla

These four tips are tried, tested and provided to help you get started creating simple jewellery images for use on your website, social medi

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

...provides diagrams for Jewellers that show the patterns and sizes for some popular Jewellery clasps, fittings and findings

Essential tips for Jewellery beginners on the best way to get started. All you need to know from a Jeweller and Industry training consultant

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

Discovering your customer's actual need to buy rather than the initial want with careful questioning will give you the best chance for a

Why create and design writing instruments? This important choice was influenced by my experience of a traditional bench skills apprenticeshi

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

This is my tip for annealing fine silver or gold wire perfectly throughout its length without hard spots or overheated areas which will show

Tweezers, mine are very valuable to me, they are not just a useful tool they also belonged...

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...

I highly recommended this new book from Contemporary Goldsmith Mark Fenn: his book showcases jewelry from a wide range of exciting narrative

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

Jewellery Industry expert Jurgen Maerz shares this neat little trick for recognising if a piece of jewellery is Platinum or not.

Are you making the most of your potential as a jeweller? If not a mentoring session with an experienced Jewellery professional could provide

How secure is your workshop? During busy seasonal making periods, take care not to become complacent with your security. Take a moment...

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...

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...

Tips for deciding to use tradition or technology for making jewellery.

When you are working hard in your creative businesses, generating designs, new product development or making for shows, exhibitions and...

Q What is Enamelling? Enamelling is the art of applying richly coloured powdered glass to the surface of metal and firing with heat...

Getting practical help with troublesome stonesetting issues can be difficult for makers working alone, however but help is now at hand....

Having great product design is just the start of your journey, these tips answer important questions for your jewellery making dreams.

Innovative technology now available in the jewellery industry can benefit jewellers very successfully when used alongside traditional...

Customer satisfaction is critical to the success of your creative business, because understanding and adapting to the needs of customers...

Mokume Gane' is the ancient Japanese silversmithing technique of layering or laminating different coloured metals together permanently to...

Colouring Anodised Aluminium is quite a technical process, any deviation from the correct procedure can leave you with a disappointing...

Laser Marking is sometimes referred to as Laser Engraving which uses the power of a laser. The laser beam laser beam precisely alters the...

This clay like material is a useful and interesting choice for any Jeweller to consider for as an additive material for a contemporary...

The properties of Platinum can make it a very difficult metal to polish, trade polisher Stephen M Goldsmith shares this quick tip with...

What is Burnishing? Hand Burnishing jewellery or silverware creates a polished finish using the friction created by continuously pressing...

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...

Where does your source of inspiration come from? For me contemporary architecture is a rich source of three dimensional design. My...

Keum Boo (also known as Kum-Boo) is the ancient Korean jewellery technique of richly surface embellishing precious metals with 24ct gold...

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,...

​​ Q If Diamond mounting is not about mounting or setting diamonds into jewellery - then what is this technique? Diamond Mounting is the...

Seeing a Jewellery Industry professional practise their expertise and skills in their workshop environment could give you the best...