Running a Fine Jewellery Business with the Rising cost of metals with Goldsmith April Dace (podcast episode) — Jewellers Academy In this episode of the Jewellers Academy podcast, Jess is joined by fine jeweller April Dace to explore how to run a successful jewellery business in the face of rising gold and metal prices. April sh...

#SmithSky The podcast that my academy has put out did an episode this week on dealing with the rising cost of metal - thought it might be useful to you guys. www.jewellersacademy.com/blog/running... #Silversmith #Metalsmith #Goldsmith

Throwing out a few questions to get us started. #SmithSky #Silversmith #Goldsmith #Metalsmith
How're things? What have you been working on this week?
Are you having any conversations with your customers about the volatile metal prices? What is their feedback?
Is in-person doing better than online?

You guys up for another #SmithSky sesh today? #Silversmith #Goldsmith #Metalsmith

Heide has a small drill in her hand. She is going to drill a whole in a bronze dagger. The dagger is from hhe Bronze Age. Interesting is the way Heide holds the drill. Her little finger is used as a support to keep the hand stady.

I often find myself in situations where I'm really glad I had such a long and varied #education. Some of the habits from my apprenticeship as #goldsmith still are part of my movements. I don't think about holding my little finger as a stabiliser for the drill; I just do it. #archaeology #bronzeage

C Cut Half Round Mini Diamond Tool! 💎✨

Designed for precision hand jewelry machines, this high-performance tool is a game-changer for professional engravers and jewelers.

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#jewelrymaking #goldsmith #diamondtools #engraving #SAT #B2B #finejewelry #castingandforging

A question for the #Silversmith #Goldsmith #Metalsmith types, do you have a signature style? Do you feel like people can see something you've made and recognise it as one of yours? Is that important? Ok, that's three questions lol.
#SmithSky

Rose Gold Signet Ring by Me

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#jewelry #jewelrydesigner #jewelrymaking #maker #handmade #goth #weddingring #custommade #buy ##smallbusiness #customjewelry #silver #gothic #gothaesthetic #rings #ring #custom #silversmith #goldsmith #bee #signet #signetring

I’ve been getting more opportunities to practice resetting center stones. Today I reset two ovals, a pear, and a marquise shaped diamond(s). Most of the rings required prongs to be rebuilt and all of them required some retipping.

I wish I could take pictures to share! #goldsmith #metalsmith

A pendant featuring a colourful blue stone and a motif of bare trees.

Seems like every day I need to add more blocked words and tags here. It's a drag. So here is a necklace I made when I first started making jewellery. The centre stone is opalized wood - such colours! Like a spring day.
#smithsky #metalsmith #goldsmith #jeweller #jewellery #statementNecklace

I quit a perfectly normal career to play with ancient rocks.
I turn them into fine jewelry made by my hands
Follow my journey 💛
#naturesart #ethicaljewelry #goldsmith #roughdiamonds

An AI generated image of a smiling Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta, petting a gold cat, with the word GoldSmith.

From now on, I want all Albertans to refer to me as . . .
#GoldSmith

A question for #SmithSky, do you have a go-to resource for help identifying stones? I have a few that I didn't keep great records for when I got them, and I think I know what they are, but sometimes it can be hard to be sure. #Silversmith #Goldsmith #Metalsmith #HandmadeJewellery #HandmadeJewelry

Just a Happy Little Mushroom Necklace Me

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#jewelry #jewelrydesigner #jewelrymaking #necklace #necklaces #handmade #goth #women #womens #custommade #buy #smallbusiness #customjewelry #silver #mushroom #cottagecore #cute #ring #custom #silversmith #goldsmith #shroom

Kind of missing my little swooping swallow... there are few things I regret selling, but this is one of those instances.
#SmithSky #Goldsmith #jeweller #sterlingSilver #automaton #BirdsOfBsky #OneSwallowDoesNotMakeASpring #artistsOfBSky #silversmith

I have made a feed that picks up the following hashtags. Open to changes/suggestions! Let me know what you think.

#smithsky
#silversmith
#goldsmith
#metalsmith
#preciousmetalclay
#silverclay
#smithskyhour
#repousse
#cloisonne
#lostwax

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I’ve been thinking, could we do with a #SmithSkyHour on here? On a Sunday evening perhaps? Not for promoting, there are other hashtags for that, but for networking, sharing what we’re up to, building community? For #Goldsmith #Silversmith #Metalsmith #SmithSky peeps?

I have been sorting through photos of my #jewellery. There are thousands! This was one aspect of being a #goldsmith that I never considered - the hours of trying to get the right images to share. I should probably cull the herd. #CanadianJeweller #IndieJeweller #statementJewellery

A tiny silver cauldron sitting on a person’s fingertip with greenery in the background.

Tiny sterling silver cauldrons are my favourite thing to make. Here is one I made a few years ago for the Witch’s Chatelaine. #witchesOfBluesky #jewellery #jeweller #goldsmith #cauldron #tinyThings #witchyThings #PatiTozerArtist #artistsOfBluesky #sculpture

A silver chain on a white piece of paper.

People who know about this sort of thing, what would you call this type of chain? I’ve had it since the 80s.
#Silversmith #Goldsmith #Metalsmith #SmithSky #JewelrySky

Image of computer controlled programmable kiln controller for lost wax casting burnout. Features a touchscreen LCD panel to start/stop and manage burnout.

Images is of a computer controlled kiln controller and a Neycraft brand manual temperature controlled kiln.

I built a new kiln controller. This time with touchscreen display. This is the 3rd kiln controller I've built. Same Neycraft manual kiln for ~30 years. Need to remove plastic film and finish screwing together, but test fire was 💯 #lostwaxcasting #jewelrymaking #silversmith #metalsmith #goldsmith

#TudorTuesday
Portrait of a Goldsmith
Lorenzo Lotto
c.1530

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#Portrait #Goldsmith #LorenzoLotto #Venetian #Venice #Italy #History

Love my job

#jewelry #silversmith #goldsmith #casting #lostwax #lostwaxcasting #3dprinting

a goldsmith at Strasbourg I recently revisited the family history around the Weiß chronicles, which I hadn't touched in a long time, and discovered quite a few new things and some old things that I knew superficially but never investigated in depth. Among the latter is an ancestry line that came to the Hunsrück from Liège via Strasbourg and included a goldsmith or three. Specifically, my ancestor Johann Conrad von der Rosen was born 1599 in Strasbourg, came to Winterburg (not far from Eckweiler) and married Elisabeth Nesselius (daughter of another protestant priest, more about that in a separate entry) and settled as an innkeeper and "Gerichtsherr" (juryman?) at Winterburg where he died in 1656. His father, Franz Bolion von der Rosen is the goldsmith whose story I want to explore here. He worked at Strasbourg from 1579, so quite possibly in the rue des orfèvres, just northwest of the cathedral. Although it was only named thus in 1680, this street housed goldsmiths since the Middle Ages. Photo: Par Nikolai Karaneschev, CC BY 3.0, According to old family histories where he pops up, he was world famous in his time, see for instance this text from Karl Heinz Armknecht from the 1950s. As one of the genealogists who mention him pointed out, he has an entry in Thieme-Becker Künstlerlexikon, where I could track him down. As they spell him as Roosen, he appears in vol 28: Ramsden–Rosa. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1934, on pp 583-584: Basically the entry lists like a dozen sculptures by him that were known to be in the art collection of Elias Brackenhofer (1618-1682). I love they way the author specifies for each single item that the figure is naked. With classical sujets like Venus, Cupid et al. you would rather expect that they aren't wearing too many clothes but this entry spends a significant fraction of its word count on spelling that out every single time. Note also that the dictionary has nearly 150,000 entries so being included doesn't quite make you a household name. Apparently he had to flee from Liège to Strasbourg where he is recorded in 1579 (although I've failed to find a specific event at that time that might have endangered his life in Liège). At that time he was simply Franz von der Rosen. The Bolion being an extra he acquired upon acceptance into the goldsmiths' guild in Strasbourg, which happened before his marriage to Ottilia Flach on 21.1.1581 in St. Thomas church, Strasbourg. Which is interesting because ... Ottilia is from the Flach family that appears in Albert Schweitzer's family tree (his maternal line great-grandmother was nee Flach), and Schweitzer used to play the organ in St. Thomas church when he studied in Strasbourg some 320 years later. (Find Ottilia on GedBas too.) Anyhow, what troubles me is that the world-famous goldsmith has been completely forgotten outside the circles of genealogists who proudly present him in their family trees. While there is a family "de Rosen" in Liege, the members who turn up online tend to be much more recent than our refugee, apart from the earliest ancestor, Pierre Rosen, who was a citizen of Liège in 1520. So he could theoretically be the father of our earliest ancestor, the father of the Strasbourg goldsmith: Humbert / Humprecht Bolion von der Rosen born ca. 1530 in Liege, mentioned 1544-53 as an engraver in the guild list of the goldsmiths of Liège, married Gertrud de Pealier before 1560, then Ursula Meyer in Strasbourg in 1562, which seems to suggest that he came to Strasbourg earlier than the first date noted for his son. One generation on, we're running out of Roses, but his father in law, Jean de Pealier, was mentioned as an engraver and member of the goldsmiths' guild at Liège from 1548-54. His wife was called Marie Surdelle (which sounds like a made-up name as it translates as "sure of herself"). So we have a whole lot of goldsmithery going on here across three generations, shame that these people have fallen into oblivion. * * * Who is who? - see my new name index for all things family history.

this 16th century #goldsmith at #Strasbourg has been sitting on my #familyTree since 2013 but I never got round to having a closer look at his story until now. proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-goldsmith-at-s... #familyHistory #genealogy

Something for British #Silversmith #Metalsmith #Goldsmith types. Gemstone World gemstoneworlduk.etsy.com are closing down and are getting rid of all their stock at 30% off. I've bought from them a lot - great quality stones - good time to snap up a bargain. #SmithSky #HandmadeJewellery #Maker

I made them into earrings 💎 💎
#Silversmith #Metalsmith #Goldsmith #HandmadeJewellery #HandmadeJewelry #SmithSky #DeLaetare

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#SmallBiz #Handmade #HandmadeJewelery #HandmadeJewellery #Silversmith #Goldsmith #Metalsmith #SmithSky #Art #Craft #OOAK #ShopSmall #YarnSky #MixedMedia #Etsy #BSNM #Fiberarts #WearableArt #Handcrafted #Vintage #OnlyBeautifulThings #Artisan #JewelrySky #SoapSky #CraftBizParty, #UKGiftAM #Pottery

My work bench, over my shoulder.

My work bench, all lit up my a led light that arches over it.

My soldering bench

My bench, overlooking my living room

I promised a few of you pics of my bench. It’s about as tidy as it’s ever gonna get so here you go. And now I wanna see yours!
#SmithSky #DeLaetare #Silversmith #Metalsmith #HandmadeJewellery #HandmadeJewelry #Goldsmith #Maker #SmallBusiness

Shelley is holding a silver bezel that she is making; her thumb is covered in green mesh tape to help grip and protect her fingers. Inside the bezel, you can see the silver jump ring she has made as the seat for the gemstone that will be set inside

Jewellery isn’t just what you see on the surface.

Sometimes a gemstone needs a hidden seat to sit on.
So I make one. Same metal. Hammered flat. Tucked inside the bezel.

The tiny details make the difference.

Want to see more behind the scenes?

#Goldsmith #StoneSetting

A handmade abstract sterling silver crown ring in a jewellery box

"Her courage was her crown and she wore it like a queen" 👑

#goldsmith #handmade #smallbusiness

A pair of pickleball paddles fabricated from silver wire, with yellow lava balls signifying the pickleball balls hanging inside the paddle’s frame.

Anyway, I made a pair of silly little earrings for my pickleball-obsessed friend.

#Silversmith #Metalsmith #Goldsmith #HandmadeJewellery #HandmadeJewelry #SmithSky #Maker #WearableArt #DeLaetare