This is a comprehensive guide to identifying buying using & caring for a wide array of jewels & gems. It covers the origins of gemstones & how to assess the quality rarity grade & cut of precious & semi-precious stones. There are clear illustrations & colour photographs to help you identify the different types of gemstone available & demonstrate how they can be used in a vast variety of designs & settings. A chapter on pearls is also included. Cuts & facets settings
- both old & new designing your own settings appraising buying & handling gemstones as well as how to spot synthetics & fakes are also covered. The result is a complete guide to all you need to know about gemstones.
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A compelling & dramatic new saga of the north west set in the austere 1920s Emma Coles life is shattered when her widowed father Frederick is imprisoned for theft. She never believes that he is guilty
- but her intimidating uncle David Hawksworth thinks otherwise. Reluctantly giving Emma a home over his jewellery shop he forbids all contact with the convicted man. But Emma secretly visits her father in prison. As time progresses Emmas relationship with friend Ricky who works at the prison deepens & for a while it seems that the future might not be as difficult as she feared. Then tragedy strikes. Caught in a welter of family politics & feuds Emma remains determined to prove her fathers innocence. Yet when the identity of the real culprit is uncovered the revelations are shattering. Only by facing the truth about the past can Emma find happiness
- & see justice finally done.

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Presents all the fundamental metalworking techniques needed in making jewellery. Subjects discussed include: cutting & bending pattern texture & contour fusing & soldering cold connections finishing & patinas stone settings mechanisms & chains & casting. ...

Making jewellery & accessories is a great way for kids to express themselves
- & is also a fun & creative way to introduce them
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Recycled Materials is firmly based on providing simple illustrated step-by-step methods & techniques for creating jewellery from recycled materials. This handbook covers the importance of using recycled/reused materials in terms of environmental impact sustainability creativity necessity v. choice & ideas of making the common valuable & precious through treatment & presentation. The variety of projects included in this title will teach readers how to make a necklace from tin pendants from keys use fabric for a cuff & to use plastic cardboard cork & foam to make bangles necklaces earrings & brooches. Also included is an extensive list of scrapstores & suppliers of recycled materials as well as information about how to find free or very cheap materials from other sustainable sources. ...

Do you love jewelry & beading? Would you like to know how to make chic jewelry & accessories? Jewelry & Beading Designs for Dummies is packed with patterns step-by-step instructions & inspiring color photos to get you stringing knotting & looping in no time. From earrings & necklaces to pins purses charms & more you'll discover new techniques for making just the right pieces to suit you
- or give as fantastic fashionable gifts! This easy-to-follow visual guide speeds you right into the basics of jewelry making: assembling your gear; working with pliers; & fine-tuning your stringing bead weaving & wire wrapping skills. You'll use elastic cord ribbon leather a wire jig & more to make bracelets bookmarks pendants & napkin rings. Before you know it you'll take your skills to the next level & beyond using multiple techniques & materials on thrilling & unconventional designs. Discover how to: Make more than 75 fresh fun & practical projects Hone your basic jewelry making skills Work with silver leather glass beads & crystals Create rings bracelets phone covers wine charms & more Use bead crimping knotting & weaving to make beautiful designs Make stunning earrings & necklaces using a wire jig Fabricate beads & wire components Find nontraditional materials such as hardware beach glass & more Add beauty skill & satisfaction to your life with a little help from Jewelry & Beading Designs For Dummies!
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Coco Chanels passion for fabulous jewels for exceptional stones for improbable marvels produced pieces were unparalleled in their insistence on luxury & refinement. Drawing inspiration from tradition Chanel was never the slave of everyday formulas or mere market values. Yet she reinvented tradition in the most arresting & modern jewelry pieces based on her love of colours as well as her assured command of austere classical beauty. Chanel was a creature of contrasts: there was the Chanel of the most sumptuous baroque of rococo mirrors & dazzling playful unrestrained jewelry; & there was the Chanel of the utmost restraint of classicism a la francaise. Out of this dialogue between ostentation & austerity the jewelry that Chanel created throughout her long career has been celebrated in many revivals of her exceptional taste. From the direct re-creations of the 1932 Collection to the newest interpretations of comets & stars plumes & feathers & Chanels signature flower the camellia this book is true to the spirit of her enterprise. Classic images from the archives combine with exciting new photography to bring old & new together. ...

This title features step-by-step projects & full-color examples. Create unique jewelry to wear with everything from jeans to a ball gown! Want to make your own jewelry? This easy-to-follow guide gives you lots of hands-on instruction in making simple fabulous jewelry & working with beads. From wire wrapping & knotting to weaving & polishing youll get all the skills you need to make necklaces bracelets earrings pins key chains wine charms & items for the home. This guide helps to discover how to: create funky & elegant designs; work with leather silver & stones; string knot & weave beads; avoid common mistakes; & host a trendy jewelry party. ...

On the eve of Sarah Whitfields 75th birthday she stands at the window of her chateau in France waiting for her family to join her. Her memories take her back to the 1930s in New York to her early marriage & subsequent shameful divorce. She is persuaded by her parents to join them on a trip abroad in the growing turmoil of pre-war Europe. There she meets Wiliam Duke of Whitfield. Older than Sarah & fourteenth in line to the British throne he sparks her intellectual curiosity & makes her laugh. They make their home in a beautiful crumbling French chateau until they are parted by the war. Afterwards they are able to return to the chateau & establish the jewel collection which leads to the House of Whitfield jewellers to the crowned heads of all Europe. Together they produce a family of four each of whom is drawn into the family business. JEWELS is the story of a great house of gems a rare family & an extraordinary marriage. Once again Danielle Steel explores the lives of people facing challenges we recognise as our own against the backdrop of war passion & international intrigue. ...

This book was born of a series of documentary films about the German Occupation of the Channel Islands from 1940 to 1945 entitled The Channel Islands at War. It is also the fulfilment of an ambition to tell in much more detail than was possible in those documentaries the true story of those extraordinary years. The Channel Islands were the only British soil to be occupied in the war the Islanders the only British citizens to fall under German rule. How the Islanders reacted to the invaders has recently been the subject of heated argument & impassioned debate & for very good reasons which are explored in this book. It used to be thought that the Occupation of the Channel Islands was a rather gentle even benign affair utterly unlike that of say France or Holland on mainland Europe. It was believed that by & large the German invaders behaved reasonably well & kept within the terms of the Geneva Convention. For their part the Islanders responded by offering no resistance to their masters & only co-operating not collaborating with them according to that same Convention. It was certainly uncomfortable but not horrendous. Unpleasant but not unendurable
- the conquerors & the conquered getting along together in what was thought to be the very model of a model occupation. That is not the whole truth. The real history of the Occupation is much different from that. It is more morally complex ambiguous & difficult. It is the story of a sustained & wholesale attack on human values of great suffering venality violence & grotesque & hideous murder. It is also the story of extraordinary courage wise & resourceful leadership & surprisingly given the awful conditions much good humour. This is the story which is told in Jewels & Jackboots. From the bombing raids on St Helier & St Peter Port in June 1940 to Liberation on 9th May 1945 the narrative unfolds largely through the words of those who actually endured those years those people who were actually there when thousands of their neighbours were taken from their homes & shipped away to camps across Europe there when the slave workers arrived from the eastern front actually there when the Jews were rounded up & haled along the Via Dolorosa & actually there when after five long years the British soldiers returned once more to the Islands. Alongside the words there are the pictures that illustrate the progress of the Occupation every step of the way. Photographs of the heroes of those times of course & pictures from the Island of Alderney where untold hundreds of Todt workers worked & died. Extraordinary photographs too of the Germans as they arrived in the Islands tall handsome proud immaculately uniformed. Then in stark contrast photographs of the Wehrmacht in the final days of occupation. There are the stories too of the American Po Ws Clark & Haas & their successful escape from the Islands & of the three Jersey boys Audrain Gould & Hassall who failed so tragically in their attempt & were betrayed by the mother of one of the lads. Every respected authority has been consulted to help establish the truth of the account of the Occupation that appears in this book but it is the voice of the Islanders themselves which is its most fascinating & important feature. Their stories as told to me & published here are among the most moving marvellously humorous & wise I have ever heard. The reader cannot fail to be touched.
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