Making Jewelry

Transcript Hi, my name is Tam Tran and I am a designer living in New York City. I also have a jewelry store and a workshop called Lost Wax Studio on Elizabeth Street between Spring and Kenmare. My thing is sort of more about ancient jewelry, and trying to find the perfect connecting point, between …

Transcript We’re going to make a pair of jade drop earrings and these are great just because they add a little color to your outfits. You can wear this with an all black or you can wear this with a sort of green top. It will just pick up the green in your top and …

Transcript Now that we’ve sorted the piece and it’s cooled off, we’re just going to clean up the seam. So now see, by adding heat to it, because it’s sterling silver, it’s turning black, it’s oxidation, so using sand paper, you can pretty much shine it all back up again. The solder went really nicely …

Transcript Hi, I’m Tam. I’m going to show you how to make a very simple pair of earrings by texturizing a ready-made oval disc that you can just buy at any beading store. So this is what it’s going to look like. When we buy it it looks like this, but after you texturize it …

Transcript Hi. I’m Tam, and I’m going to show you how to make a single gemstone earring. And here, we’re using pearls. Basically, this is a very popular, simple earring, that a lot of people feel that it’s lacking in the market place, just because it’s too simple to be sold in stores. But it’s …

Transcript Hi, I’m Tam, and I’m going to show you how to make a pair of chain earrings with briolette dangles. I didn’t finish this one, because I just wanted to show you the different options you could do. This is basically a ready-made chain that you can buy. So you can buy thicker, heavier, …

Transcript Hi I’m Tam and I’m going to show you how to make a pair of fresh water pearl earrings with emerald bead clusters. Basically this is what were going to make. So basically we have our pearl, our 3b for the cluster that your wire and the wire for the clusters and the wire …

Transcript Hi, I’m Tam, and I’m going to show you how to make a bracelet with wire wrapping and Czech glass beads. So basically, I’ve wrapped all these beads on it, and I’ve chosen the colors sort of so they’re a little metallic, and darks. And they will look great with any outfits. So basically …

Transcript Now I’m going to show you how to build a vertical component to your horizontally wrapped chain. Because these are beads, if we’re gonna build it vertically it needs to go this way from the chain. So you can buy things called a head pin, or you can make them with your wire by …

Transcript Hi my name is Tam and I’m going to show you how to make a simple thin wire ring from silver wire, 16 gauge, at home because we can only use this mini torch at home so you want to use something very, very thin with the wire. So basically this is pretty popular …

Transcript Hi. I’m Tam, and I’m going to show you how to make these dangly earrings with briolettes. Briolettes are the teardrop cuts of stones. So these are what we’re going to make. So these you can buy at any bead store, these rings in oval shape, and these are the briolette beads. And for …

Transcript So now I’m going to show you how to make a hammer dangle component to hang off of your chain. So basically we’ve made the basic unit with the loop and I’m going to pick a place to put it on to the chain and so it’s going to look like this. And then …

Transcript Hi I’m Tam and I’m going to show you how to make a pair of Rutilated quartz drop earrings. So, Rutilated quartz is basically a type of stone. And, it’s a quartz and the Rutilated means these are the rutiles inside of the stone, so you can see the markings inside, that’s called the …

Transcript So now I’m going to show you how to make bindings from wire. These are commercial binders that you can buy in a store or since you already have the wire, I’m just going to show you how to make the components instead of buying it. Sometimes it’s a little nicer because you can …

Transcript Hi, I’m Tam and I’m going to show you how to make a pair of blue quartz and labradorite dangle earrings. So basically this is the earring we are going to make. This is our blue quartz drop and then the labradorite bead. So, I have a piece of 24 gauge wire and I’m …

Transcript I’m going to show you how to use a silk string in the knotting and beading. So when we use a silk string, it’s usually when we use a better material. So now I’m going to attach the clasp, and when I attach a clasp with the silk string, I use a product called …

Transcript Hi, I’m Tam. I’m going to show you how to make a wrap bracelet with jump rings, or washers, or any kind of washer-type hardware. So, these I actually got from the hardware store. These are actual jump rings from the jewelry supply. You can actually use anything as long as it has a …

Transcript Hi, I’m Tam, and I’m going to show you how to make these very simple bracelets with just a few beads and string of any kind of leather or waxed cord, which is what I’m going to use here. These are great for the summer because they’re colorful and they’re summery, and we sell …

Transcript Hi. I’m Tam, and now I’m going to demo stringing and knotting with a silk string. Usually, this is what we use for pearls. You put all your pearls onto the string, and what you’re going to need for this is very, very, very pointy tweezers. Basically, my first knot is like so, so …

Transcript Hi, I’m Tam. I’m going to show you how to make a long necklace with mala prayer beads on loop cord. So basically, we’re going to make something like this, which this is a sample of a necklace I made already. Basically, this is something really long that you can wear doubled as a …

Transcript So beading is completely different than stringing and knotting, because beading is more like sewing with tiny little beads. And stringing and knotting is about using beads, but you’re going to be putting it on a string, as opposed to sewing it with a needle and thread. So the first material, of course, are …

Transcript Hi, I’m Tam and I’m gonna show you how to string beads on leather and just add knots like these bracelets here. So basically we just put on any bead you’d like. These are great because these are more like summery kind of bracelets so you can add lots of color, their easy to …

Transcript Hi, I’m Tam, and we’re going to make a freshwater pearl bracelet. Real pearls, like freshwater pearls or South Sea pearls, you want to knot them so that they don’t bang into each other and damage the pearl. It depends on how valuable your pearls are, but most pearl jewelry is knotted for this …

Transcript Hi, I’m Tam and I’m going to show you how to make a rolo chain bracelet with leather cord or wax cords. So basically this is what it’s going to look like. Rolo chain basically means it’s a name of a type of metal chain. So you can go to any beads or jewelry …

Transcript Hi, I’m Tam and I’m going to show you how to wire wrap. This is a very popular technique. This is one of our popular workshops at our store. Everybody sort of likes to do this because it’s very low tool usage and you can do a lot of things with this technique. So …

Transcript Hi, I’m Tam and I’m going to show you how to make a simple necklace with a pendant. This is a pendant that I’ve made and I’ve already put it on the cord and I’m going to show you how to do the adjustable sliding knot, but a double one instead of just a …

Transcript Hi. I’m Tam and I’m going to show you how to make another fun wrap bracelet with blue wax cord and these brass tubes and these cool dangles that I found at the bead store. I have a yard of wax cord. And basically, this is another organic project, meaning there’s no exact dimensions …

Transcript Hi, I’m Tam and I’m going to show you how to make a simple leather bracelet with one bead on it and sliding knots. So basically, this is the sample of what we’re going to make. This is a pearl with unnatural leather and the sliding knots mean that they’re adjustable. So if you …

Transcript Hi, I’m Tam, and now we’re going to talk about how to use the different crimps and attachments to put on the clasp and everything. So here I’m going to show you, I’m using the bead along wire. So basically this is what we’re going to do. I’ve already finished one end of this …

Transcript So now I’m going to show you how to start a chain and add the beads. So we made our basic component. Basically, you want to have at least three wraps, that way it’s secure. You can even do a longer coil as part of your design. But you want to have at least …

Transcript Hi I’m Tam. And now were going to make a, just another easy leather knotting bracelet. And so basically this is just determined by the beads you choose. So I chose these cool sort of skulls. This is carved out of an agate. This is a porcelain skull. These are porcelain. And these are …