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Many of his handmade jewelry designs feature a distinctly Andean perspective, and they are bold and classic at the same time. Born in Lima, Peru, Master Jeweler Fermin Vilcapoma traces his beginnings as a silversmith to age eleven, when, after school, he first began helping his father at the family's workshop. "I attended school in the morning, but I was always daydreaming, creating new designs," Vilcapoma recalls... Many artisans the world over work in lost wax. Lightly antiqued for vintage style. Ruth Tomlinson composes a fantasia of blue sapphire, twinkling diamond and polished gold granules on her textured cuff. Ruth Tomlinson surrounds a sea green tourmaline with dazzling brilliant-cut diamonds and frothy bubbles of granulated gold in her handcrafted 14kt yellow gold ring. A lapis briolette marks the halfway point amid lapis, hessonite garnet and honey opal beads. However, in earlier times, the Maya had little access to metal, so they made the majority of their j...