Search
Search the whole magazine.
Full-text search across every article — headlines, decks, body copy, pull quotes, captions and FAQs — plus our editorial and legal policies.
3 results for “London Bullion Market Association (LBMA)” in Craft
Craft · 3 August 2026
The Wedding-Season Bid: How Jewellery Demand Sets the Floor
…and the buying behaviour it produces is the most reliably contrarian force in the entire market. · Jewellery is roughly half of annual gold demand, and the majority of it is bought in Asia. · High-karat jewellery in India and China functions as savings with a wearable form facto…
Yusuf Demir · 16 min read
Craft · 5 June 2026
The Alchemy of Craft: What Goldsmiths Know That Machines Don't
…ically. Stone settings are placed to tolerances a hand could not repeat reliably. · For a market that wants a specific design in eleven sizes with consistent stone spacing, this is straightforwardly better. Casting also wastes less metal than fabrication from sheet and wire — and…
Yusuf Demir · 11 min read
Craft · 22 July 2026
Hallmarks and Assay: How Anyone Proves Gold Is Gold
…ry alloy 585 14 karat — the durable everyday standard 375 9 karat — legal as gold in some markets, not in others · Fire assay: destroying the sample to tell the truth · The referee method has barely changed in principle since the sixteenth century. A precisely weighed sample is w…
Yusuf Demir · 12 min read
