How jewelry is made
Vladimir Markin has been engaged in jewelry business since 1997. He worked in different companies, and four years ago he founded his own brand and opened a workshop on Krasny Oktyabr. Now his team of eight makes things to order and releases two collections a year. The brand is known for unusual design jewelry: in the form of bridges, wood with stones, in the form of stationery and mechanical (for example, there is a ring in which diamonds can be hidden at the touch of a button). The price of items from the collections starts from 15 thousand rubles, custom-made jewelry costs from 100 thousand rubles to several tens of thousands of dollars. Here's how they're made.
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1. If ideas for collections come spontaneously, then the process of creating custom-made jewelry begins with communication with the client. According to Vladimir Markin, customers often do not know what kind of thing they want, and they have to find out for whom it is intended, what the person likes. “We try to get as much information from the client as possible, which will give ground for creativity, so that it would be interesting for him and we are pleased,” says Markin.
2. For example, these cufflinks were ordered by a man who used to be in the oil business and now works on Internet projects - black diamonds are hidden behind microchip-like plates.
3. The artist draws a sketch of each decoration by hand. After the sketch is approved by the customer, production begins.
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6. A 3D model is built according to the sketch. With its help, a prototype of the decoration is printed on the printer, which is needed to make the shape of the future product.
7. There is no foundry in the workshop - the contractor is engaged in casting. Gold blanks come to the workshop already prepared.
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10. An employee of the workshop selects the stones that will need to be fixed on the product. It uses diamonds, sapphires and other precious stones of different colors and sizes.
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16. Stones are bought all over the world - sometimes they are selected for a specific decoration, sometimes a product is invented for the existing material. The workshop works with different stones, but most often diamonds are used.
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19. Setting stones on a pendant in the shape of a snail. It should have about 400 sapphires. With the help of various wrappings, an employee fixes the stones - she will spend about a day on this.
20. In the process of setting stones, the product is periodically cleaned with a stream of hot steam.
21. Vladimir Markin collects earrings - when you press a button on them, the petals open and a diamond dew drop becomes visible.
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24. Making jewelry takes about a month. Markin Fine Jewelery items are sold in stores in Moscow, St. Petersburg, London, Singapore and Hong Kong.
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