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What do jewelers do? They create historical jewelry and beadwork to advance the art of historical jewelry making and understanding, including the documentation, technology and techniques involved.
Lapidary work involves the cutting of stones. These are most commonly cut for the purpose jewelry, though this is not always the case.
"Modern minerology is very different from Medieval lapidary, particularly because stones that could not separated in the Middle Ages can now be distinguished by their chemical composition. In addition, we distinguish fossils from minerals, and they did not." See Stefan's Florilegium for an excellent list of medieval stones. http://www.florilegium.org/?http%3A//www.florilegium.org/files/CRAFTS/A-Lapidary-art.html
Working with beads is another area that ties into jewelry making. Lampwork beads are created by hand with a torch from glass.
Want to see a modern walk-through of the process? visit this page -- http://www.beadworx.com/HowToMakeABead1.html
More information --
Jewelry Makers of Meridies http://groups.yahoo.com/group/meridian_jewelers/
Jewelry Questions -- see the files section in the Artisans Collaboration of Meridies facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/314196732021880/files/
A collection of related links -- http://www.scatoday.net/taxonomy/term/170
A collection of related emails -- http://www.florilegium.org/files/ACCESS/idxaccess.html
Online book - Guide to Provincial Roman and Barbarian Metalwork and Jewelry in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Online book - Islamic Jewelry in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Online book - Metropolitan Jewelry
Lady Fiona makes and sells jewelry - look for her at an event!
https://www.facebook.com/fionasfancies
Also see some of her Pinterest boards for inspiration and ideas -- http://pinterest.com/fionasfancies/
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