Design and Manufacturing Techniques of Jewellery, Decorations and Costume Jewellery With Non-Traditional and Non-Standard Materials

Peculiarities of design and technology of creating jewellery and art-objects using non-traditional and non-standard materials and elements are considered. The term “special” materials is introduced. Possible technologies of shaping and decorating jewellery with the use of “special” materials, differences in the technology of production of serial and exclusive jewelleryare analysed. The group of handmade jewellery is singled out. It is shown that jewellery and art objects under consideration are united by the possibility of self-realisation of designers, that the authors’ imagination is practically unlimited in the choice of design and materials used. Design and construction of products, properties of used materials and elements, their shape and dimensions, peculiarities of shaping, joining, fastening and decorating impose certain restrictions on the technology of designing and creating jewellery.