How Custom Jewelry is Made

How Custom Jewelry is Made

The art of making custom jewelry. Making custom jewelry takes many forms and encompasses many techniques used over the ages by virtually all cultures. These techniques include metal fabricating/forming, beading, and lost wax casting. Lost-wax casting (also called...
How to Care for Jewelry  – Cleaning

How to Care for Jewelry – Cleaning

You probably wear your wedding set daily, and may have some favorite pieces that get worn often. If you wear jewelry regularly, keeping your jewelry clean and looking good requires just a little effort. The payoff is jewelry that sparkles like the day you got it. Here...
How to Care for Jewelry: Easy Guidelines and Tips

How to Care for Jewelry: Easy Guidelines and Tips

Jewelry Care 101 We hand select or make every piece of jewelry at Barbara Oliver Jewelry. I have very high standards, so nothing leaves our shop unless I am completely satisfied that is a high quality, serviceable piece of jewelry. But every piece of jewelry, no...