Jewelry Design: Designing gems beyond metal

Abstract

In addition to proposing the shape of the metals of a jewelry or adornment, it seems possible that the jewelry designer can also design the shape of gemstones. In this context, this article was prepared with the purpose of presenting a system of types of mineral shapes (solid bodies) to help the designer, jewelry designer, to design their projects in a simple way without the need to have the physical gem in your hands. The schematization of the morphological system of gemstones, proposed here, aims to be applied in practice by the jewelry designer during the preparation of drawings, especially in the sketch phase (NBR 17041) of a jewelry/adornment project.