Sterling Silver and Glass Cleaner

by Marilyn Gardiner

There are several home methods for cleaning silver (check a previous article I wrote about Jewelry Care), but here's a new one that a student told me about.

Instructions

Glass Cleaner! Yes, stand at a sink and spray your piece until it drips. Rub the cleaner into it, and maybe spray a bit again. You will notice that the drips become grayish—indicating that tarnish is being removed.

I tried to take photos to show the before and after. I could see the difference, but I had a problem getting the camera at the same angle for each shot to show the improvement. (I didn’t want to fake it with Photoshop.)

This technique gives you a quick fix if you want to wear a piece of jewelry, but it’s looking dingy. BUT, this will not add a shine to your piece—you need a different method that burnishes the silver to do that.

Marilyn Gardiner's Sterling Silver and Glass Cleaner - , Tools For Wire Jewelry, Wire Wrapping, Wrapping, Wire Wrapping Jewelry, Windex to clean wire

Materials

Wire

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Marilyn Gardiner

I am a teacher who worked for many years as a teacher librarian and educational computer consultant. As part of my job I taught teachers and principals how to use computers in the classroom and I developed curriculum modules.I love jewelry, color, pattern, and design. It is thrilling to create something new that others love too. And I truly enjoy breaking down something complex into an easy-to-learn sequence that I can share with others, whether in print or in a classroom.

During the past 10 years I have energetically and enthusiastically developed my beading and chain mail skills and used my teaching background with adults to develop bead work and chain mail kits with step-by-step instructions that really work. I know that the kits have good quality instructions because of the positive feedback from students I teach and from customers who buy the kits at shows and from my online store.I regularly teach classes locally in Toronto ON, as well as occasionally in Mississauga, Barrie, Temple TX and San Antonio TX.I have been a vendor at bead shows in Toronto ON, Guelph ON, Montreal QC, Ottawa ON, Calgary AB, Halifax NS, Milwaukee WI, and Tucson AZ - and I teach a full slate of classes at these shows. My website has details.

In 2007 I was "Folk Artist in Residence - Beadwork" at the Joseph Schneider Haus in Kitchener ON. This involved setting up a series of lectures, seminars, and demonstrations throughout the year. There was also a good-sized gallery exhibit of beadwork that featured my work and included the contemporary and historical work of many others. The residency resulted in several articles in the local media.

I later completed a bead work commission for the museum, and some of my work is sold in the museum gift shop.I have published projects available online at Beading Times, Bead Bugle, All Free Jewelry, and The Beading Gem's Journal. Some of my kits are sold online through Beadfx. Kalmbach Publishing published my first book, Modern Chain Mail Jewelry, in 2015.Most of my time at present is directed to creating new chain mail projects.

I am currently working on several new designs that will be ready as kits and for teaching this fall. Each of these will have an Argentium sterling and a copper or Jeweler's Bronze version, and a couple will be silver filled 925/10. This will bring my chain mail kit total to more than 150. (My husband makes all our jump rings and packages the kits. Good man!)

Website: www.marilyngardiner.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/GardinerDesign