How to Create Your Own Jewelry Line

by Emilie Shapiro

Overview

A successful jewelry designer offers a practical guide to starting your business, selling your creations, and building your brand.

To develop a successful jewelry line, designers have to be more than just creative artists—they have to understand the ins and outs of running a crafts business. Emilie Shapiro’s detailed guide explores the many facets of creating a quality handmade collection that people will buy, including:

• where to sell your work
• how to do small-scale production
• how to carry out market research and publicity
• how to price and present your pieces for greatest effect, and much more

Includes photos

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781454710851
Publisher:	Union Square & Co.
Publication date:	11/22/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	271
Sales rank:	758,264
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Emilie Shapiro lives and works in New York City, where she designs and creates her own jewelry line, Emilie Shapiro Contemporary Metals. Before she started her own line, Emilie worked as the Production Manager at Pamela Love and Allforthemountain. She teaches wax-carving classes and specialty workshops at various studios including 92Y, Liloveve Jewelry School, and other studios throughout the NY Metro area. Her work is sold worldwide in locations such as the American Museum of Natural History, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Royal Ontario Museum.