Gemstone Settings: The Jewelry Maker's Guide to Styles & Techniques

This encyclopedic overview gives jewelry makers an in-depth, technical guide to stone setting.

Gemstone Settings features an extensive summary of stone-setting and techniques for creating beautiful gemstone jewelry, from basic bezels and prongs to pave, carre, clusters, and numerous others – including cold joins, precious metal clay, settings for fragile stones, and settings that allow the stones to move.

You'll also discover detailed information, photos, and illustrations about stones and me...