Jewellery Making Blog by Burhouse Limited

Caring for Jewellery: The Dos and Don’ts To Keep Jewellery Clean

How to keep your jewellery clean. Whether you sell jewellery or make it for an enjoyable pastime, there may be occasions where either the components or the finished pieces aren’t in use for some time – if they’re on show for a while before sale, for example.

Published date: 29 July 2020

What Is a Cabochon?

A cabochon is a flat-backed gemstone that, classically, has a domed top. Cabochons provide an easy solution for adding gemstones into your design without necessarily requiring any advanced jewellery-making techniques. They can be glued into cup settings. However, it’s worth learning the skillset required to set your own cabochons by creating your own bezel cups with silversmithing techniques.

Published date: 09 June 2020

Ideas for Making and Selling Easter Jewellery

As Easter Sunday approaches, we prepare to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection and the ‘defeat of evil’ forever – something which we can all too much resonate with amid the current global crisis.

Published date: 25 March 2020

What’s in a Gem? The Meaning of the Birthstone

Each birthstone is steeped in ancient mythology and folklore and is said to have certain abilities and bring various benefits for its wearer.

Published date: 16 March 2020

Burhouse on YouTube!

We have a great selection YouTube videos available to help with your jewellery design, full of design ideas and product demonstrations. These are branded under our Bead House range but we have kept these running and are available on our burhouse channel.

Published date: 23 February 2020

Infographics – Guides for Jewellery Designers

Obviously here at Burhouse we're jewellery making fanatics, and supply everything you could imagine for making your own accessories and jewellery. So we have developed this guide to jewellery making where a visual reminder/infograpic maybe useful.

Published date: 22 February 2020

Article Filters

Categories

Tags

Your Basket

Call Centre

Blog