Beading and Jewelry Magazines Links

• Accessories Magazine  Accessories magazine is the leading publication in the world of accessories. Founded in 1908, the magazine services a $25 billion industry, acting as a conduit between the retailer and the manufacturer—giving both the information they need to successfully run their businesses and understand the changing consumer.

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• AJM Magazine  MJSA's award-winning flagship publication, AJM: The Authority on Jewelry Manufacturing is the only magazine devoted solely to the manufacture and sale of fine and fashion jewelry. No other publication devotes as many pages per month to new manufacturing techniques, bench tips, business and marketing strategies, and time-saving technologies.

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• Beadwork Magazine  Six times a year, Beadwork publishes beautiful projects in all types of beadwork–on- and off-loom beadwork, wirework, bead knitting and crochet, and stringing (to name just a few)–presented with easy-to-follow directions and crystal-clear photography. Each issue also includes inspiring interviews with stars in the field, historical features on beadworking around the world, reviews of the best beading books and supplies, and helpful tips. Beadwork magazine is quite simply the whole world of beading at your fingertips.

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• Bead and Button  Make your own beautiful jewelry and art pieces! Each issue includes hand-tested, step-by-step instructions and photos for the beginning to advanced beader. Also offers a wealth of valuable information, including tips and techniques and artist profiles.

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• BeadStyle  Want to make great-looking fashion jewelry? Every issue of BeadStyle offers more than 18 necklace, bracelet, and earring projects simple enough for beginners, yet stylish enough to interest seasoned beaders. BeadStyle's easy-to-follow directions are well-illustrated with photos, and every project is tested by the editors. A wonderful way to get started in beading.

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• Colored Stone magazine  Colored Stone is a bimonthly, international trade magazine that covers all facets of the colored gemstone industry, including new sources for colored gemstones, mining and processing, manufacturing, retail sales, consumer buying trends, marketing and promotion, gem cutting and jewelry design, and technological developments pertaining to the trade.
  
  Colored Stone also publishes 3 show guide issues - the Tucson Show Guide , Vegas Show Guide , and Fall Show Guide . These issues and Web sites provide valuable information on various trade shows - exhibitor lists, floorplans, travel links, and more - for each specific show and show location.

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• Crafts & Decorating Showcase  Launched in 1995, Crafts & Decorating Showcase magazine offers crafting experiences for all readers, whether they are avid crafters, dabblers or seasonal decorators. Each issue features project instructions, patterns and step-by-step techniques. The magazine also includes product reviews and a buyer's guide listing manufacturers and retail sources.

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• Crafts Magazine  Edited for the craft enthusiast involved in a broad spectrum of crafting activities. Its editorial scope includes step-by-step instrucions for craft and needlework projects, reviews of craft books, new product information, sections on stitching and paints & crafts, as well as pull-out patterns.

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• The Crafts Report  The Crafts Report is the premier business magazine for the crafts professional. Published monthly, TCR provides information on: marketing, growing your craft business, time management, studio safety, retail relationships, artist/retailer profiles, industry news and more.

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• Craftrends  Edited for the craft enthusiast involved in a broad spectrum of crafting activities. Its editorial scope includes step-by-step instrucions for craft and needlework projects, reviews of craft books, new product information, sections on stitching and paints & crafts, as well as pull-out patterns.

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• The Guide: To Wholesale Gem Pricing.  Prices in The Guide are market driven based on research. We do not buy or sell gemstones making the information the most unbiased in the industry. Each year, more than a dozen researchers canvas trade shows, report transactions and monitor trading networks to provide a comprehensive base of data by which prices are generated. More than 20 editorial and pricing advisors also contribute to the publication.
  TRADE ONLY. Please note that when you order The Guide, you will be asked for trade references.

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• Jewelers’ Circular Keystone  Jewelers’ Circular Keystone (JCK) is the jewelry industry’s leading trade publication. JCK’s origins date back 131 years to the original Jewelers’ Circular magazine, which merged with the Jewelers’ Keystone in the early thirties. Over the years JCK’s editors have won many awards for outstanding journalism and integrity. JCK serves retailers, manufacturers, and vendors of fine jewelry and selected upscale gift categories, providing valuable market and design trend information and how-to information about gemology, financial management, employee relations, marketing, advertising, and visual merchandising, e-commerce, and other topics.
  Other JCK Magazines

  LUXURY INTERNATIONAL  Discover what the luxury consumer wants and how they want to be served. This publication is directed to the high-end retail market, reaching upscale jewelers. Learn the latest design trends and the essential business and global market strategies for pleasing a demanding clientele.
  
  To order your quarterly service to Luxury International, contact rbozza@reedbusiness.com or fax your request to 646-746-7088
  (The publisher reserves the right to serve only those individuals who meet the publication qualifications.)

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  TRENDZ  Published prior to the two key selling seasons – Spring and Fall, TRENDZ is designed to present a showcase of the latest, most fashionable product designs the industry has to offer with it’s large-format European-style layout

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• Jewelry Crafts magazine

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• Lapidary Journal  Lapidary Journal was first gem and jewelry-making magazine in the world! And after more than 50 years we're still the Number One magazine dedicated to the art of gems, jewelry-making, beads, minerals and more!

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• Modern Jeweler  Jewelry product and fashion trends are the one sure way to capture and hold the buyer's attention. Modern Jeweler's reader research proves that jewelers prefer a focus on new jewelry trends, jewelry marketing strategies, the latest jewelry fashion, and new techniques and materials. We also set the standard for visual sophistication. ONLY Modern Jeweler provides jewelry buyers with style and substance: expert analysis and the industry's most exciting graphics. Modern Jeweler's jewelry coverage is accurate, intelligent, enlightening and, above all, helpful to buyers. Buyers look to Modern Jeweler, their #1 source for jewelry information and inspiration.

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• National Jeweler  National Jeweler is the world's most important jewelry resource - the publication of record. National Jeweler presents up-to-the-minute news to its readers in every issue twice a month. With the magazine's first four editorial pages devoted to the latest breaking news, and followed by news pages keyed to specific markets, readers can quickly find the information they need on the latest happenings in the marketplace. National Jeweler also keeps up with the latest trends in fashion with its color fashion folios and other fashion coverage.

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• Professional Jeweler Magazine  Professional Jeweler is read by 26,000-plus jewelry retailers throughout the U.S. and abroad and is published monthly in Philadelphia, PA, by Bond Communications, an organization whose principals have nearly 150 years of combined experience in the publishing and jewelry industries. Bond Communications also sponsors the Professional Jeweler Show in Las Vegas and is the North American representative for the annual BASEL World Watch and Jewellery Show in Basel, Switzerland.

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• Rock & Gem Magazine  Since 1971 R&G has been the leading magazine for the lapidary and mineral hobbyist. We capture the fun and excitment of rockhounding, gathering mineral specimens at their source. We guide our readers step-by-step though the creative processes of jewelry making, from the simplest beginner projects to the advanced skills of faceting.

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• Step by Step Beads  Step By Step Beads is a bead jewelry-making magazine from the editors of Lapidary Journal. First issue was published in Spring 2003.

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  Step by Step Beads features 15 – 20 bead jewelry projects per issue and inspire enthusiastic readers to create beautiful, wearable art all year long.

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• VogueGioiello.net  This is the Italian Vogue website site devoted to Jewelry. This website has lots of articles and pictures.

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• Women's Wear Daily  Often called "the fashion bible," Women's Wear Daily serves as the voice of authority, international newswire and agent of change for the fashion, beauty and retail industries. In l999, all the properties carrying the Women's Wear Daily name were reorganized under a single umbrella, creating WWD MediaWorldwide.

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• The Wire Artist  The Wire Artist Jeweller Magazine is a product of the Wire Artists Group and its Founders. Wire art projects, wire jewelry information, beading, wire artist group, color, ideas, events and wire art history.

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