What does Contemporary Jewellery mean?
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ContemporaryJewelleryTheory
Published: 17.04.2008
Ring: Happy family NHS, 2002
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Contemporary Jewellery is a type of practice - understood as the contemporary offspring of a craft-based design activity that finds its origin in medieval workshops.
This article first appeared in Metalsmith, Fall 2006. Metalsmith is published by the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG), the premier association of jewelers, designers and metalsmiths,
www.snagmetalsmith.org.
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