There are two types of jewelry manufacturing: mass market and custom. In both cases the manufacturing of jewelry requires the development of a very detailed set of instructions for jewelry making. The process typically starts with a craftsman developing the prototype jewelry piece. Then the ring, necklace, bracelet or other trinket must be approved both from a beauty and sales standpoint and an assessment made of its manufacturability. It is after this point where the process changes drastically.
Mass-Market Jewelry Making
Throughout the world we now see jewelry selling for less and less as the jewelry making instructions improve and millions of the articles are mass produced. Houston is now one of the centers of commercial wholesale jewelry. In Houston you can find stores where there are literally hundreds of the same items of jewelry in a given stand on the wall.
Most of these items are not made of precious metals or stones but are pressed out of chrome-based metals with rhinestones or other glass placed into the setting by a machine. Thus, instructions for jewelry making in such an environment must include details at such a level of granularity, that a...