CONTENIDO: The messages of jewerly: why wear ornaments
The means to creation: working environment, facilities and implements
Metal. The jewel's material: its origin, quality and variety
Basic techniques: processing sheet metal without deformation
Sheet metal: forming the deformation techniques
Wire: the uses de drawn or extruded flexible filaments
Tubing: the uses of fistular forms
Surface ornament without heat: metal removal techniques
Surface ornament without heat: metal fusion techniques
Fabrication: building fragments into units
Casting: methods of giving form to molten metal
Natural materials in jewellery: using nature's valued nonmetals
Stones and their setting: inorganic minerals employed in jewellery
Metal finishing: achieving desired surface appearance
Metallic coating techniques: changing the base metal's surface appearance
Metallic buildup: electrolytic molecular creation of surface and form
Coloring metals: achieving patinas through heat, chemicals, and electrolysis
Standard weights, measures, and tables
Glossaries
Bibliographies
Sources of tools, supplies and services
Index
