Description

The first book to teach the valuable skills of jewellery care and repair, this comprehensive guide reveals how to clean, repair, and revive neglected or damaged jewellery It is a useful guide for students, professional makers, the keen amateur jewellery restorer, and for people buying, repairing and selling vintage costume jewellery. Discover how to clean and care for a wide range of materials, from base metals to diamonds; replace a missing necklace clasp; replace missing pin fastenings; restring necklaces; convert clip-on earrings to pierced ear fittings; add a charm to a charm bracelet; repairing a dented locket; alter a ring that is too small or too big; replace a missing stone and much more. With reams of useful information on everything from clasps to cleaning fluids, and illustrated with more than 550 colour photographs, Jewellery Solutions is essential reference for any jewellery owner.