"Make Like the Masters" Manufacturing Insight
June 17, 2013
AND they are wonderful, dazzling, and enabling technologies. Throughout history, jewelry fabrication (whether high end Tiffany's and Cartier or costume jewelry) has used the latest available manufacturing methods with impressive results in both new capabilities and improved productivity. Jewelers, going back much further than we may realize, have constantly been exploiting the latest technologies to make their work both novel and affordable. It is fascinating that the same financial issues and "handmade debate" are not new struggles.
No matter what your medium, it is worthwhile to consider the potential that advancing manufacturing methods offer the designer/maker to create or improve productivity.
Think about how you could use modern manufacturing to reduce your labor, lower your price point, increase your market, and become more profitable -- or to avoid repetitive stress injuries.
Photo courtesy of Angela Grace
Unfortunately, what we miss with this online presentation
is the impressive samples that Peter DiCristofaro laid out on the
stage during the 2013 SNAG Conference. The audience buzz was electric! Next time I am near Providence,
the Providence Jewelry Museum will be on my destination list.
Photo Courtesy of Angela Grace
This photo (left) shows conference attendees touching the Elsa Peretti chain mail scarf mentioned during the Peter DiCristofaro lecture.
Watch this video (below) of one of the Janvier - C&W Steel Stamp machines mentioned in the DiCristofaro's SlideShare PowerPoint.
PS. This SlideShare presentation "Make Like the Masters" was originally given during the 2013 SNAG Conference in Toronto. It is posted with permission from the speaker Peter DiCristofaro from the Providence Jewelry Museum and SNAG.
You are welcome to share the link to this lecture "Make Like the Masters" . It is also posted on the SNAG website,
Your comments are welcome.