User:GeraldJewelryEducator

I am looking forward to constructive criticism about my edits on this website.

A bit about myself should start with the fact that I am a jeweler and jewelry educator. I also research "Historical Jewelry Manufacturing Processes".

As a Jewelry Educator, I strive to blend historical and modern methods of jewelry design and metalwork via lectures, teaching, and hands-on learning in a variety of traditional and contemporary materials and processes. I teach the formal principles and elements of design alongside conceptual elements. The history of jewelry is also discussed and shared to better understand the creative process at an intuitive level. Teaching the formal principles & elements of design alongside conceptual elements concurrently enables a student to prepare for independently and objectively evaluating designs and processes in jewelry as well as develop their own individual narrative in their jewelry designs as well as determine how jewelry fits into and affects the material culture of our society.

As a researcher, I have to admit that I joined this website due to pressure from my friends. I have been told over the last few years that I must fix the page about aiglets! Since 2014 I have been doing original work with aglets, aiglets, and lace tags. I have revised and extended the typology for aiglets. I am currently writing a book about aiglets.

I intend to work my way through the easier edits that are suggested to make sure I am a productive editor.

Publications Tournaments Illuminated, issue 214, 2020, “Regalia Commissions and RFPs” pgs 11-14, Tournaments Illuminated #214 2nd quarter 2020

Contributed content to “The Jeweler’s Bench Book” by Charles Lewton-Brain. This book looks at the jewelers bench in depth. The book was informed by a survey which over 140 people answered. The Jeweler’s Bench Book covers everything from the basics of bench design to ingenious tips for tool storage and arrangement.

Contributed content to “Tournaments Illuminated”, (192, 4th quarter 2014). ‘Quest Article: Engimas of History’ with guest editor Robin Finch.

I have a monograph being published by "The Compleat Anachronist" later this summer in issue 196 (2022).

Mentions: The British Museum manages the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) and oversees the administration of the Treasure Act 1996 (both in England). they also host the secretariat for Treasure cases in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Several of the listings mention my typology for aiglets (lace tags)

Several websites have been directing readers to my website for further information about aiglets.

Self-published: Some possible examples of extant aiglets meant to be sewn onto garments. ( https://www.livingstonjewelers.com/library/sewingAigletsFeb2018.pdf ) Aiglets: Medieval, Post Medieval, and Modern. June 2017 ( https://www.livingstonjewelers.com/library/aigletsJune2017.pdf ) PowerPoint slides for the above presentation ( https://www.livingstonjewelers.com/library/ppslides2017.pdf ) Talking notes for the above presentation ( https://www.livingstonjewelers.com/library/conferencenotes2017.pdf )