A metals/jewellery URL list. Lewton-Brain
+1996 Copy and Paste the URL (address line) into your browser or
search engine to go to the site.
http://kaos.deepcove.com/cig/
Gemmology World-a superb site for gem information
http://mineral.galleries.com/default.htm
A really nicely done gemmology on-line resource, a search engine and
more for gem materials and their attributes.
Gem crystal systems info-good stuff
Thomas Mann Design web site, incredibly prolific
artist/designer/jeweler, definitely worth a visit.
http://www.phoaks.com/phoaks/rec/crafts/metalworking
(Hot links to metalworking sites)
http://www.actlab.utexas.edu/~vreed
Vernon Reeds pages, a way cool artist jeweler, thinker into
‘cybernetic ornament’ from way back.
http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy.html
An odd but interesting set of links.
A comercial page about laser burning of scanned photographic images
onto 14k gold.
http://www.LICCINI.com
Mark Liccini’s gem/specimen source, a very nice gem treatment page and
more to come.
http://www.colorburst.com/~paulec/resources.html
-The Colorburst links page- good links to resources
http://www.ccjewelers.com/index.html
C & C Jewelers, a very nicely done jewelry web site. Good links.
http://www.gemdata.com/
Reviews of gem/jewelry software, gem info, an interesting site
http://www.addgr.com/jewel/elka/
A very cool set of pages on Greek jewelry, includes historical
technique and styllistic
jewelry connections - dealers, sources etc)
http://www.gunderson.com/blackgold.html
Gunderson’s Jewelers pages on gold, alloys, legal requirements etc,
nicely done.
http://www.nerdworld.com
Nerdworld - a cool connections place
http://www.tollfree.att.net/dir800/
The ATT 1-800 telephone line search engine and directory for US based
businesses
http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/index.html
The Virtual Reference desk-sort of but not quite like having a
reference librarian on hand.
http://users.lanminds.com/~drewid/
United Artworks Pages, a great set of links and other for
arts and crafts people.
http://slonet.org/~mraffert/gemlinks.htm
Quite an impressive set of jewelry oriented links.
http://www.goldmach.com/
A site for new and used jewelry manufacturing equipment and tools
(store) (links to other places) Bus. links
http://www.junction.net/dms/index.htm
DMS goldsmiths. Great section on basic jewelry making tools.
http://users.lanminds.com/~drewid/jewelry%20techniques%20page.html An
archive of some of Peter Rowe’s answers to questions on Jewelry making
techniques. Good stuff.
http://www.knight-hub.com/manmtndense/directry/direct.htm
Bruce Holgrain’s links page, ‘A god among Goldsmiths’ has a great
links and quick access to search engines page here, check the rest out
too.
http://www.gis.net/~adamas
Gemology and appraisal and software demo (the most
comprehensive gemmology software around).
http://io.hewi.ac.uk/pros96/art_des/jewel.htm
(school for jewelry home page -a good example)
http://www.tafensw.edu.an/trainingdivs/arts/5391.html
(TAFE NSW - J. Repair course info)
http://www.fwi.uva.nl/~boncz/artvark/rian/main.html
Rian de Jong: Dutch Art Jeweler
http://www.tcp.co.uk/~amulet/ringmaker/index.html
A very nice set of fast loading pages, lots of introductory technical
for jewelry making.
http://www.xmission.com/~archiv/gcbook/contents.html
(garnet casting block book + pics)
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/edu/arts/metal/TOC/proces/forge/mokume01.ht
l Jim Binnion gives an excellent description of his own process for
making Mokume Gane.
http://www.toolworld.com/machtool/html
(tools + links)
Refractal Design, Inc., an interesting site
http://www.digitalnation.com/ward/
(gem book publishers: orders etc.)
http://ddi.digital.net/7Emilieux/supplies/websupplies.html
(costume and supplies hot links site)
Great gem links, info on gems and gems for sale.
http://www.io.org/~bodyart/catalog/cat008.html
A nicely done body piercing jewelry catalog site. Not for the faint of
heart.
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~rpevtzow/bodyart.html
A fairly definitive listing of body art links.
http://www.postmodern.com/~mcb/piercing.html
A body piercing site with explanations and links to related sites for
those who are interested
http://www.wweb.com/gems/about.htm
Raymond Gabriel, nice stones for sale, deals with arty shapes.
http://www.jewelers.org/
Jewelers of America site. good for consumers, a little
smarmy and sales-talk like, a little slow loading for my taste.
http://home.sn.no/~bmoen/Jeannesweb.html
Jeanne’s corner. A personal home page in Norway with an eclectic set
of good links and some nice jewlery ones.
gopher://atlas.chem.utah.edu/11/MSDS
Check the chemicals you work with at this MSDS site.
http://gopher.tmn.com:70/1/Artswire/csa
Michael McCann’s Arts Safety and Hazards site (Center for Safety in
the Arts).
http://gopher.tmn.com:70/0/Artswire/csa/arthazards/visualarts/jewelry
The Jewelry/Metals safety and hazards page from McCann’s site.
http://gopher.tmn.com:70/0/Artswire/csa/otherwww.html
McCann’s links pages for health and safety.
http://www.fedworld.gov/
Despite the name this is an incredible set of US government resources
for business, health, safety, free publications and tons more.
http://mwanal.lanl.gov/CST/imagemap/periodic/periodic.html
A searchable, informative and reasonably good periodic table of the
elements (click on the element to get more
http://www.national-jeweler.com/
National Jewelry Magazine home page, good gem links (recomendation
from Fred Ward)
http://www.ticllc.net/home/rgolden/mymarks.htm
Roger Golden’s bookmarks. A gigantic list of links on all kinds of
subjects.
http://www.dendritics.com/
An interesting site for its gemology links and
http://www.bonnydoonengineering.com/
The Bonny Doon Press company pages.
http://www.connect2.org/cc/
Creativity Connection, sources for arts/crafts/crafters, links and
more.
http://www.switchboard.com/
A cool new connection service (still for free) to find individuals and
companies etc.
http://geology.wisc.edu/~jill/306.html
An excellent gemology course and info site. Don’t miss this one if you
are into gems.
http://geology.wisc.edu/~jill/keywords.html
Jill’s hot index to her site on gems. This site is a must visit for
those studying gemmology.
http://blue.temple.edu/~crafts/jmcc/jmcc.html
The Tyler School of Art Jewelry/metals Program CADCAM site, hints of
the future for metalsmiths.
http://www.ids.net/~slvrsmth/sashome.htm
The Society of American Silversmiths (SAS), info, artisan gallery,
links, l articles.
http://www.ids.net/~slvrsmth/workshop.htm
A listing of metals workshops coming up in the US, where, when, who’s
teaching. (It’s about time someone did this!)
http://www.ids.net/~slvrsmth/goods.htm
Boy the SAS’s Jeffrey Herman is doing a lot of things right. A great
metals sources page (some of my contributions too)
http://www.mfginfo.com/
A new and used machinery links site, industrially oriented by
interesting-a machinery newsgroup too.
http://www.gemnet.co.uk/
British Jewellery site, growing and expanding. Has a mailing list to
belong to.
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/mspencer/home.html
Michael Spencer’s home page, blacksmithing and lots of science, HTML
links and more.
http://www.ccsi.com/yeeha/sword/sword2.html
Angel Swords, a swordsmithing company page-interesting and not run of
the mill.
http://www.industry.net/c/main
IndustryNet, a place of industrial supplier listings, news, surplus
equipment etc.
http://www.agt-gems.com/AGTbook.html
Lots of about gemstones and their ‘planetory gemology’ and
astrological meanings. Check out the ‘Modern Gemology’ section.
http://www.gemstones.com/lore/source.in
Gem lore and ascribed attributes for healing etc.
http://www.nitehawk.com/Mystical.Crystal/gemlist.htm
A really extensive list of gem ‘healing’ properties and attributes
http://www.eyesoftime.com/ssor/crys.html
A good article on crystals, history of gemology and gemology in
general. The ‘Eyes of Time’ site.
http://www.usbm.gov/mi/myb/gemdoc.htm
An excellent article that is an overview of gem production and
marketing channels from an economic value point of view.
http://www.artlogue.com/jewl1.html
A site for artists and craftspeople to advertise free, lists of
suppliers and links.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/brnzcaster/
Bronze casting and metalsmithing site: lots of very good
Also a really strong metal oriented links page and lots of book
sources.
http://reality.sgi.com/employees/kurts_engr/foundry.page.html
Another bronze casting link, how to build a small foundry and ‘an
evening doing a casting’.
http://www.icm.ac.cn/smelting/metallur.html
What must be one of the most comprehensive scientific metals and
metallurgy links pages around.
http://www.gemzone.com/gz_main.htm
Gem Zone, a gems, tools and equipment seller.
http://wwar.world-arts-resources.com/others.html
An arts links page. Check out the Arts Links site in Staffordshire
too.
http://www.logintech.com/~jiro/index.html
An interesting site for a art jeweller’s graduating show from the
Cranbrook Academy of Art
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/edu/arts/metal/ArtMetal.html
The ArtMetal Project-a must visit for metals people.
http://www.thomasregister.com:8000/home.html
Thomas Register, a great service and company finding site.
http://tbr.state.tn.us/~wgray/index.html
The Metal Web News, an essential visit for metals folks. Check the
metal oriented links.
http://me.mit.edu/2.70/machine/outline.html
Machine tool use page, an example of a link from the Metal Web News.
http://www.gia.org/
The Gemological Institute of America site-very comercial but
interesting.
http://www.finishing.com/
The metal finishing folks home page, lots of links concerning metal
finishing
http://www.abrasha.com/home.html
Abrasha’s page, contemporary jeweler. Excellent, innovative work.
Check out the Picasso confession on it.
http://www.mcs.net/~frnklyn/homepage/
This is just an all-around interesting set of pages and links, lots of
blacksmithing stuff.
http:/www.ganoksin.com
https://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/tip_sear.htm
Brain Press collaborative web site with Ganoksin.com. It has an
excellent notes, jewelers tips and tricks section and about 250 pages
of my writing on metalsmithing that you can download and share - as
long as you don’t make money on it.
http://www.titanium.com/tech.html
Titanium industries reference site.
http://www.riogrande.com/
Rio Grande tool company site. Extensive tips and descriptions section
(and yes they are trying to sell you tools)
http://www.craftsreport.com/
The Crafts Report Magazine site-good stuff for networking.
See http://plains.uwyo.edu/~metal/patinas.html
Patination information
http://plains.uwyo.edu/~metal
Metals FAQ with lots of info.
http://www.teleport.com/~raylc/
Associate Jewelers, links, trade info on jewelry, gemology info
http://www.sonic.net/~ceen/glad.html
Art apprenticeship links, classes and course in art.
http://www.guild.com/home.htm
The Guild home page, art/crafts source books, comercial services. I
buy the ‘Gallery’ editions to see whats happening in the field.
http://www.xensei.com/users/adl/
The art Deadlines list-good for competitions, exhibitions etc.
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cariadoc/jewelers_bibliography.html
A jewelers bibliography, descriptions and comments on a number of
jewelry books. An interesting page.
http://zuvsun.unizh.ch/international/publications/kbf1.d.96/valcambi.h
ml a project report on the use of lasers for production goldsmithing
and decoratively working precious metals
http://www-cpa.stanford.edu/cpa/reports/jewel/corebib.html
A jewelers bibliography, not annotated but contains over 280 titles
distilled from numerous librarians and other bibliographies as the
librarians ‘best of the best’.
http://www.wp.com/fsg/fsg.htm
Florida Society of Goldsmiths site. Very nicely done with lots of
metals oriented links.
http://www.kodak.com/daiHome/cStory/jewelryDesigners.shtml
An interesting story about jewelers marketing using CDROM technology.
http://www.pathcom.com/~simon/see_jane.htm
See Jane Draw. A really nice site for metals/jewelry folks. Not to be
missed.
http://www.knight-hub.com/manmtndense/faqs/rec_craf.htm
The rec.crafts.jewelry FAQ site-questions and answers on metals and
gems.
http://www.indirect.com/www/greg_p/index.html
A personal site, good links to CADCAM and rapid prototyping sites.
Sites with articles by Charles Lewton-Brain, Summer 1996:
The Artmetal Site
http://plains.uwyo.edu/~metal/patinas.html
Artmetal archive, Cleaning metals and patination information
Ganoksin Online
https://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/tip_sear.htm
Tips from the Jewelers Bench’ and Lewton-Brain articles.
https://www.ganoksin.com/kosana/brain/brain.htm
Brain Press home page, Lewton-Brain bio and book and video
descriptions
Jewelry Source
http://www.jewelrysource.com/magazine.career.htm.
Jewerly Source Site. Links to articles page.
Cybermall
http://www2.csn.net/~petrelle/publish.htm
Cybermall page for ‘Cheap Thrills in the Tool Shop’