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  • Radiant Echoes: The Metal Mastery of Victoria Lansford front cover

    Get the Book! – Radiant Echoes: The Metal Mastery of Victoria Lansford

    $65.00

    Radiant Echoes: The Metal Mastery of Victoria Lansford showcases the artist’s journey through over three decades of ground-breaking applications of historical metalsmithing techniques. This retrospective publication comprehensively not only explores Lansford’s endless ability with complex metalsmithing techniques including filigree, Eastern repoussé, and granulation, but also speaks to how her skill and vision marry in the creation of objects that filters tradition through a contemporary lens. Simultaneously an artist, alchemist, and shaman, Lansford brings together the familiar with the unexpected through creative work that rethinks the millennia-old practice of turning raw materials into precious objects. 

    The book features over 150 images of art jewelry, art objects, and large-scale metalwork drawn from across Lansford’s career as well as a comprehensive glossary of her techniques used, offering a unique opportunity for readers to explore the evolution of Lansford’s creativity and craftsmanship. Radiant Echoes will make a fantastic addition to the library of anyone who loves jewelry, sculpture, metalsmithing, or simply contemplating beautiful objects.

    Radiant Echoes includes new essays by curators, scholars, and artists including Kate Bonansinga, Cynthia Eid, Rauni Higson, Elyse Zorn Karlin, Victoria Lansford, and Jane Milosch, with consulting editor Emily Zilber.

    Full color, casebound, 186 pages

    ISBN 978-0-9821833-6-6

  • Giving Voice front cover

    Giving Voice Print Edition

    $39.99

    “Giving Voice arrives like the fall of cool rain in the desert…a sweet and gentle relief.”

    – Nick Bantock, multi-best-selling creator of the Griffin & Sabine trilogies

  • Giving Voice with 2019 Ippy Award for Best eBook Design (Bronze), and 2020 e-Literature Award for Best Multi-Media Book (Silver)

    Giving Voice Apple Book (eBook) Edition

    “Giving Voice arrives like the fall of cool rain in the desert…a sweet and gentle relief.”

    – Nick Bantock, multi-best-selling creator of the Griffin & Sabine trilogies

    $19.99 Get it on Apple Books Print edition available

  • All Chained Up, ebook version by Victoria Lansford

    All Chained Up, Ebook Version

    $16.99

    Available only only on Apple Books *

     

     

    Part of Victoria Lansford’s internationally acclaimed instructional series, Metal Techniques of Bronze Age Masters. Formatted especially for the iPad™, this ebook edition includes 11 videos and over 150 full-color process photographs to provide clear and concise instructions for eight fused chain patterns, each with endless variations.

  • Eastern Repousse & Chasing DVD by Victoria Lansford

    Eastern Repoussé and Chasing DVD

    Price range: $99.95 through $334.95

    Learn the secret of texturally sculpting metal into any shape or design of high or low relief with the technique of Eastern repoussé and chasing, used by the ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Scythian metalsmiths. Explore how to achieve exquisite detail, unsurpassed depth, and multiple levels of relief that are exclusive to this type of repousse, yet applicable to any type of design. End the confusion about where to hammer, with which tool, and how hard. Make several pieces suitable as pendants or brooches and discover the possibilities of using this process with alternative materials, such as mokume gane and bi-metal.. By working on a jewelry scale, you will develop a working knowledge of repousse and chasing that can be used on metalwork of any scale whether wearable, functional, or sculptural.  Streaming sold separately. This DVD will not play on an iPad. To stream or download this content, please purchase the Vimeo edition, found here. Both editions come with the same ebook (that contains text and images not videos).

    • Approx. running time 5 hrs and 23 min.
    • Encoded for all regions

    Trying to download your ebook after purchasing the DVD? Go here. For more information about pre-made Eastern Repousse Tools, or to purchase them separately, go here.

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  • Victoria's iMakeJewelry App for iPhoneâ„¢ and iPadâ„¢

    iMakeJewelry App 4.5 for iPhoneâ„¢ & iPadâ„¢

    Spend less time on math, and more time creating!

    Calculate:

      • Wire and Sheet Weight
      • Ring Blank Length
      • Ingot Drawing
      • Quick Wire Drawing
      • Rolling Mill Sheet Expansion
      • Wax to Metal Weight
      • Alloy Recipes
      • Karat Up/Down
      • Quick pricing

    Check Spot Prices and convert measurements in English or metric

    Includes extensive instructions by Cynthia Eid on working with Argentium, B&S/mm/inch equivalents, and, bench tips from Victoria, and so so much more!

    No 3rd-party ads and no subscription! Once you purchase it, all updates are free for life

    Click here to purchase.

    Exclusively available at the Apple AppStore Requires iOS 13.0 or later.

  • Russian Filigree DVD

    Russian Filigree DVD

    $79.95

    Learn Russian filigree from the master who began the revival.

    Go from the basics of traditional Russian filigree (filigrana) to advanced, contemporary, and dimensional filigree forms, while making two styles of pendants, earrings, and two types of rings. Learn expert techniques for successful fabrication without frustration. Make your own perfectly milled and twisted filigree wire. Discover how to use different types of frame wire to create distinct looks and how to form elegant filler wires in different curves. Learn the secrets of nesting filler wires to achieve more interesting designs. Solder effectively with powdered solder to retain the elegant detail of the wirework. Creating filigree in both silver and gold is also explored.

    Prefer to watch this video on your iPad or PC instead? Click here.

    Streaming sold separately. This DVD will not play on an iPad. To stream or download this content, please purchase the Vimeo edition, found here. Both editions come with the same ebook (that contains text and images not videos).

    5 different projects, creating 3D filigree, and many time saving tips & tricks

    Purchase includes a downloadable and printable ebook (with still photos and text) to keep the corresponding directions and step-by-step photographs on your bench and a membership to online Q&A forum with Victoria

    Approx. run time 2 hours 30 min.

    Encoded for all regions

    Need to download your printable ebook after purchasing the DVD? Go here.