How to learn to be a jeweler

The jeweler is both an artist and a craftsman who is engaged in the manufacture of jewelry. This work is interesting and varied. High-class craftsmen do manually exclusive things according to their own designs, but in factories they often practice a narrow division of labor. Among jewelers there are casters, cutters, engravers.

Instruction manual

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To become a jeweler, you must have a number of personal qualities: perseverance, patience and creative thinking. Working with metal and stone requires physical effort, well-developed fine motor skills of the hands and one hundred percent vision. The jeweler has to forge, solder, mint, blacken, encrust and polish.

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A lot of jewelers are self-taught masters studying the profession in books, study guides or directly from famous and experienced artists. But you should keep in mind that to start work on your own you need to have a certain amount of capital. The jeweler’s desktop should be equipped with a large number of tools and devices, the cost of which reaches several thousand dollars.

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The largest jewelry enterprises constantly require highly qualified specialists, so many of the factories open specialized schools for the production of jewelers, assemblers, fixers and foundry workers. The desired profession can be acquired by completing a six-month training course in one of these schools.

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35 km from Kostroma is the village of Krasnoe. It has long been famous for its jewelers. Today Krasnoe is the largest jewelry production center in Russia. In the village there is a school of art processing of metals known throughout the country. KUKHOM is the only educational institution of its kind in which students acquire the profession of a broad jeweler in four years and simultaneously become designers, artists, engravers, sculptors.

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Higher education can be obtained at the Moscow Art and Industrial University. S.G. Stroganov, where at the faculty of arts and crafts there is a department of metal art processing. At the Moscow State Textile University named after A.N. Kosygin also has a specialized specialty - "Artistic Design of Jewelry". Please note: you can enter universities only after graduating from an art school or school. Studying at the university will take six years.

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Having acquired the profession of a jeweler, you will have to study all your life: attend seminars, exhibitions, competitions to be constantly aware of new trends.

Useful advice

After gaining experience and mastering the secrets of craftsmanship, you can open your own jewelry workshop.

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