“Make Like the Masters” is a lecture by Peter DiCristofaro,a jeweler, designer, adviser, lecturer, and founder of the Providence Jewelry Museum. Learn the jewelry manufacturing technologies of Cartier, designs behind Tiffany, twists from Yurman, and get a rare look into the genius of unknown jewelery masters. Gain insight into the work at a jewelers bench along with innovative technologies of the last 200 years in the Providence, Rhode Island jewelry industry.Molds dies, patterns, gadgets and tricks of the jewelry trade will be presented. The video in this lecture of the Hub Cutter can be found on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVYVkG1WGMQ

1. Make like the Masters
Peter DiCristofaro
Providence Jewelry Museum

2. In honor of Alfred Weisberg
1927 - 2013

4. The American Jewelry Industry
SYRIL DODGE

5. Clad (Alternative) Metals

6. SNAG & Metalsmith Magazine
PURPLE HAZE FOXY LADY

7. Tiffany & Co.

8. Tiffany & Co.
ELECTROFORM
ETCHING

9. Tiffany & Co.
Stamping

10. Canada’s own…ESTY

11. ESTY

12. Hubs

13. Hub Cutting

14. Marty & Janvier
View this video on YouTube at:
http://www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=tVYkG1WGMQ
Link is provided in the text box below this presentation.

15. Machine help is not less
artistic

16. Hugo Kohl

17. Stamping

21. D.M. Watkins
Salvadore Tool

22. The Metal Makers
1858
6K 7K 8K 10K 11K 12K 13K 14K 18K FINE GOLD
1/15 8K 1/30 8K 1/6 12K 1/10 12K 1/10 12K ON SILVER
1/15 12K 1/20 12K 1/30 12K 1/15 14K 1/20 14K 1/30 14K
1/3 16K 1/4 16K ON SILVER
STERLING

23. Sweat Countries
ENGLISH
SPANISH
PORTUGUESE
FRENCH

24. Clad metal design

25. Construction Sites

26. Clad Wire & Tubing
WAR TECHNOLOGY

27. The Ring
Maker

28. The Secret

29. The Jeweler & The Titanic

30. Swallow the Blank

31. Casters

32. Wire Makers
Samuel Moore

33. Roll Making
SAMUEL MOORE GORHAM

34. Twist Wire
MILLARD

36. David Yurman

37. Italian Chain Makers

38. Hand Made Chain
Spit Winding

39. Chain Maille

40. Tube Making - Wrapping

41. Tube Making - Caning

42. Tube Making: Filling & Medical
ITALIAN
SAND FILLED
MEDICAL
THE INVENTION

43. Spit Winding

44. Swedging

45. Swedging

46. Spinning

47. Spinners Dilemma

48. Back to
Tiffany