Adding sterling silver charms to your boutique or gift shop inventory is quick and easy but often gives a great return.

Sterling Silver Charm Necklaces for Easy Gift Sales

Simple sterling silver charm necklaces make great gift options for your customers, without much effort from you. Simply adding wholesale charms to a necklace chain or earrings can help build out your inventory for seasonal surges.

Bulk up your jewelry retail store! Learn how to make ready-to-wear pieces quickly and easily with this step-by-step guide.

by Erica Stice

Ready-to-Wear Sterling Silver Jewelry for Your Retail Store

Bulk up your retail store with ready-to-wear jewelry pieces! Ready to wear items are great for low price point impulse purchase items making them quick upsells yet easy to stock.

Using a rolling mill in jewelry. From imprinting designs and rolling your own gauges to the main problems that occur if your not careful.

by Erica Stice

5 Ways to Use a Rolling Mill in your Jewelry Studio and Maintenance Primer - lock

Rolling mills and jewelry studios go hand in hand. Some jewelers use their rolling mills to imprint patterns on an annealed metal sheet. Others use a rolling mill as the raw material workhorse of their studios. See these and more uses in action.

New to making custom silver bezel settings? Learn how to measure and calculate exactly how much material you need and order at the right quantity.

by Erica Stice

How to Buy Bezel Strip Wire

If you make custom cabochon settings on a regular basis, it makes sense to buy basic bezel strip by the troy ounce coil so you always have material on hand. But, if you need just a little fancy gallery bezel for a special project or you rarely set custom...

Learn how to make a hinge in your jewelry designs. This essential mechanism will allow you to tackle lockets, boxes, poison rings and more!

by Erica Stice

How To Make A Hinge For Jewelry

Learn how to make a basic knuckle hinge in your jewelry designs using tubing, sheet metal and jewelry wire.

Learn prong setting in this quick guide to setting techniques. Will cover the vocabulary you need to know and the skills you can start practicing.

by Erica Stice

How to Prong Set Stones: A Step by Step Guide

Learn how to set a stone in a prong settings! This tutorial covers stone vocabulary and the basics of prong setting both faceted stone and cabochon cuts.

by Hilary Halstead Scott

Pricing Your Jewelry

Pricing your jewelry can be one of the trickiest aspects of running a jewelry business. We've created an interactive tool and accompanying free webinar to help you make sure you are not only covering your costs but making a living wage.

See what makes the Halstead office culture unique and learn about your jewelry supplier.

by Ashley Maldonado

Things We Love About Working at Halstead

The Halstead office is a place for work and fun! We love the perks and office culture we get working at Halstead. Updated 2022.

Learn about different jewelry chain link types available on the market. This article will cover link configurations and manufacturing methods.

by Hilary Halstead Scott

Types of Jewelry Chain Link Styles

Get to know more about types of jewelry chains, styles, and effects in our glossary. This is a great reference to bookmark and refer to often when shopping for chain jewelry supplies. This popular blog post was updated in 2019.

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