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title: Jewelry Making
description: Jewelry making is the craft of designing and creating wearable ornaments from metals, stones, and beads. Learners will understand wire-wrapping, metal sawing, soldering, stone setting, and how to use specialized hand tools to finish professional-grade decorative pieces.
category: trades-crafts
subcategory: specialty-crafts
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/specialty-crafts-jewelry-making
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# Jewelry Making

Jewelry making is the craft of designing and creating wearable ornaments from metals, stones, and beads. Learners will understand wire-wrapping, metal sawing, soldering, stone setting, and how to use specialized hand tools to finish professional-grade decorative pieces.

## Available Resources

2 Books • 3 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Ganoksin

Jewelry and metalsmithing knowledge base running since 1995, with thousands of technical articles and videos on soldering, stone setting, casting and enameling. The Orchid forum archive lets you look up how working jewelers solved a specific bench problem.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.ganoksin.com/

**Tags:** jewelry-making, metalsmithing, soldering, stone-setting, casting

### 2. beadaholique.com

Beadaholique is a jewelry‑making supply shop offering beads, findings, and tools, along with extensive tutorials, project ideas, and technique guides to help you create beadwork.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://beadaholique.com

**Tags:** websites, arts-design, creative-arts

### 3. firemountaingems.com

Fire Mountain Gems is a leading online jewelry-supply shop offering beads, findings, tools, and related craft materials, plus a rich library of beading and jewelry-making tutorials, project ideas, and technique guides.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://firemountaingems.com

**Tags:** websites, arts-design, creative-arts

## Books

### 1. The Complete Photo Guide to Jewelry Making

**Author:** Tammy Powley

Reference manual covering beading, wirework, metal fabrication, polymer clay, and precious metal clay, with over 700 step-by-step photos. Readers finish able to choose tools, execute core techniques, and complete finished pieces in several jewelry disciplines.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1589235495?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, trades-crafts, specialty-crafts

### 2. Bead on a Wire

**Author:** Sharilyn Miller

Twenty-plus projects in handcrafted wire-and-bead jewelry, preceded by a section on wire gauges, tools, and forming techniques. Readers learn to make loops, coils, and links well enough to design their own wire pieces.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1581806507?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, arts-design, creative-arts

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