Upcoming Conference 2011

The Association for the Study of Jewelry & Related Arts and Adornment sponsors an Annual Conference on Jewelry & Related Arts.

The 2011 Conference will take place in Boston in October 2011. Details of the conference can be found at jewelryconference.com.
Back issues of Adornment from 2007, 2008, 2009 are available (subject to prior sale).

In addition to the feature articles/reviews listed below each issue includes: jewelry news, jewelry terminology, maker's marks, jewelry translations, auction report, international calendar of jewelry related exhibits, events and more. Please download the order form here.

Winter 2007 Volume 6 No. 1

  • The Story Behind the Martha Custis Pocket Watch
  • Donald Freidlich: Site Adaptive Glass Jewelry
  • Civil War Medals in the Lynn Museum
  • Chyarm Belts: The Latest Charm Phenomenon
  • The Goldsmiths of Marché: The Pinceni Legacy
  • All About Quartz
  • Book Review: Agates Treasures of the Earth

Summer 2007 Volume 6 No. 2

  • A Revivalist Bracelet in the Assyrian Style
  • A Primer on Masonic Jewelry
  • Zulugrass Jewelry—Designs from Masai Women
  • French vs. German: Modernist Jewelry Design, 1930-1960
  • Jewelry by Artists: The Daphne Farago Collection
  • Exhibit Review:
    Wunderkammer: Jewelry and Ceramics by Pauline Wirtz
  • Book Reviews:
    Helfried Kodre
    Fritz Maierhofer: Jewelry and More!
    Reflections of Eternity

Fall 2007 Volume 6 No. 3

  • Lover's Eye Jewels—Their History and Detecting the Fakes
  • A Group of Compacts by Paul Flato
  • Exhibit Reviews:
    Stepping Out in Style: Outerwear from the Last 150 Years
  • The Dazzling Jewels of Marilyn Cooperman
  • Introducing Wen Liueh Kueh
  • The Little Blue Box: A History of Tiffany & Co.
  • A Gentleman's Jewel...Cat's-Eye Chyrsoberyl
  • Drawing on the Past, Designing for the Present...Victoria Waller's Jewelry
  • Book Reviews:
    Jewelry Handbook: How to Select, Wear & Care for Jewelry
    Shared Images: The Innovative Jewelry of Yazzie Johnson & Gail Bird

Winter 2007/2008 Volume 6 No. 4

  • Chinese Thumb Rings: From Battlefield to Jewelry Box
  • The Gold Jewelry of Andrea Cagnetti
  • Wedding Jewelry in the Historic New England Collection
  • Exhibit Reviews:
    GlassWear: Glass in Contemporary Jewelry
  • Stylized Sculpture: Contemporary Japanese Fashion from the Kyoto Costume Institute
  • Indonesian Jewelry in New York
  • Brilliant Bijoux: National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, The Netherlands
  • Book Reviews:
    Turquoise, Mines, Mineral & Wearable Art
    Sculpture to Wear, The Jewelry of Marjorie Shick

Spring 2008 Volume 7 No.1

  • The Scintillating Jewelry of Barbara Berk
  • The Art and Craft of Jewelry...Richard Grinstein
  • The Newark Museum Acquires Key Examples of White Jewlery
  • In the Eyes of the Beholder: Optik Art Jewellery
  • Forged from Scraps of War: Trench Art Jewelry from Western Europe, WWI and II
  • A Tale of Two 19th Century Watches at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • The History of Cranbrook Academy
  • Angeli Puri: Miss India-World: International Jewelry Designer
  • Exhibition Reviews:
    Hidden Afghanistan
    Real Jewelry: Portuguese & Brazilian Contemporary Jewelry
  • Book Reviews:
    Signature Prints: Jet Set Glamour of the 60s and 70s
    Art is Flowering--Flowers in Jewelry
    Glasswear

Summer 2008 Volume 7 No. 2

  • A Chinese Kingfisher Feather Headdress
  • Alexandrite—It’s Magic
  • Indian Lacquer Bangles: Rainbows on the Wrist
  • Jewelry Artist Combines Arts of Goldsmithing and Flytying
  • Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Emerald Brooch
  • Lucien Gaillard Belt Buckle
  • From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith
  • Wiener Werkstatte Jewelry

Fall 2008 Volume 7 No. 3

  • Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry
  • Arousa el Burqua: The Pride of the Carirene Veil
  • A Gemologist Looks at Lalique Jewelry
  • Alan Bronstein: A Passion for Colored Diamonds
  • New Jewelry at the Museum of Arts & Design
  • Michael Zobel Retrospective
  • In Her Mind's Eye: The Jewelry of Ines Villaneuva
  • Book Reviews:
    Middle Eastern and Venetian Glass Beads: Eighth to Twentieth Centuries
    American Costume Jewelry, Art & Industry, 1935-1950. Volume A-M, N-Z

Winter 2008/2009 Volume 7 No. 4

  • The Mary Todd Lincoln Suite
  • A Silver Uraeus Ring from Meroe
  • A Cut Above--The Carved Bakelite of Brad Elfrink
  • Nature Examined: The World of Jennifer Trask
  • At the Shows 2008
  • Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry
  • Book Reviews:
    Asian Ivory, The Fat Booty of Madness, Artistic Luxury, Faberge´, Tiffany, Lalique

Volume 8 No. 1

  • Quiet Ripples: Jewelry of Yoshiko Yamamoto
  • A 15th Century Niello Betrothal Medallion
  • Ready, Set, Bid
  • Opal, The Essence
  • Thewa Jewelry from Rajasthan
  • Yogendra Sethi: Artist and Jeweler
  • Vanessa Swarovski Launches New Line
  • Masterpieces of Ancient Jewelry
  • Book Review:
    Warman Costume Jewelry Figurals

Volume 8 No. 2

  • Jewelry of the Arts & Crafts Movement
  • Berlin Iron Work
  • A 19th Century Bangle
  • Peretti Jewels
  • Mary Fisher Artist and Humanist
  • Romancing the Stone
  • The Colburg Eagle
  • Estate Jewelry
  • Book Reviews:
  • Ancient Modern: Polymer Clay and Wire Jewelry
    Pure Silver Metal Clay Beads
    Amber: Jewelry, Art & Science