Olympia’s Angela Kirkpatrick is a jewelry maker with a very specific niche. “I’m a silversmith and I make jewelry with the hair, ashes and teeth of dead and living people and pets.” She doesn’t need ...

Gusterman’s, a silversmith shop in Larimer Square, represents an old-world ideal of master craftsmanship. The shop, more than thirty years old, sells objects and jewelry created in-house, and the ...

Skilled artisans among the Mapuche are creating pieces that reflect their worldview. By Janelle Conaway Reporting from Santa Fe, N.M. Marco Paillamilla started learning how to work with silver at age ...

Alyssa Saccente, a designer of gold and silver jewelry, handcrafts and sells her contemporary creations in a historic 450-square-foot space dating back to 1686. Saccente’s Gatta Zaffira Fine Jewelry ...

Yarrow Mead held a custom order of sterling silver hoops she made with peach moonstone and a client’s teeth. “She walked up to me with a bag of her molars. … She handed them to me and was, like, ‘I ...

In The New Silversmith, jewelry artist Nicole Ringgold shares her cutting-edge sculptural torchwork techniques for creating hand-fabricated, nature-inspired jewelry in sterling silver. Taking an ...

MIDLAND, Texas — Sawing, engraving, and turning just scrap metals into belt buckles and jewelry is something Michael Pardue has found himself doing for the past 23 years. Being born and raised in ...

All seven of Gregorio Cachi’s daughters followed him into making jewelry. Now many of their children are involved, too. By Janelle Conaway Reporting from Santa Fe, N.M. The jewelry that Hilda and ...