Our finished jewelry sets are ready to offer to your customers for simple upsells. These fashion jewelry favorites come in many fun themes across full sets of earrings, bracelets, necklaces and rings. Choose from sterling silver finished jewelry sets, gold-plated necklaces and earrings and even trendy copper jewelry designs!
Find the right tool for any jewelry making project. Rio Grande offers the best selection of jewelry bench tools and equipment available, backed by our world-class technical support. Reach for Rio Grande whether you need beading tools, a new jewelry work bench, or any other jewelry tools and supplies. We even offer jewelry making equipment for casting and other advanced techniques. We carry trusted jewelry bench tool brands like Swanstrom, Beadalon, Foredom Flex Shaft, Bonny Doon, Fretz Hammers and more. Find the best-quality jewelry making tools and supplies at the best prices.
Bead stringers know: you can never have too many beads! Whether you need colorful Swarovski beads, briolette beads or glass beads, or your design calls for a classic pearl or a natural stone bead, Rio Grande is your bead stringing source! Don¹t forget about gold beads and sterling silver beads and other metal beads; they¹re all here, too.
Bold creations meet bold jewelry displays at Rio Grande, where you¹ll find specialty displays to complement your designs and help increase sales. Rio Grande offers a variety of jewelry card displays from revolving to stationary, as well as striking organic fabric displays including silk, suede, velvet, faux leather and hemp.
Versatile and inspiring silver precious metal clay has been available from Rio Grande for more than a decade‹and today the passion for metal clay continues to evolve with colorful BRONZclay and COPPRclay. Make Rio your first source for innovative metal clay tools, products, and ideas‹such as fire-in-place Embeddables findings‹and any other metal clay supplies you need.
At Rio Grande, you¹ll find the media you need to create unique, colorful pieces and expand your jewelry-making repertoire. Stock up on supplies for enameling, the art that welcomes the newcomer, yet challenges the expert. Add a splash of color with Colores, the fashionable epoxy resin that brightens up your work.

Sterling? Sterling! This Precious Metal Clay™ comes out of the kiln as a solid sterling silver piece! Because it is sterling, this clay will have more than twice the strength of original fine silver PMC—ideal for more delicate designs and for pieces that just have to have the added strength.
Work, roll, cut, shape and fire versatile PMC® like any ordinary clay. After firing, your design comes out of your oven as a sterling silver object. Create jewelry, beads, components—anything you can do with clay, you can do with PMC Sterling™!
Composition: Metal powder (92.5% fine silver, 7.5% copper), water and organic binder
Color: Pickle white
Shrinkage: 15-20%
Physical Properties:
• Firing temperature: 815°C (1500°F)
• Melting point: 893°C (1640°F)
please note: Because of the copper content in this formula, firing is a two-step process; step one is an open-shelf firing and step two requires a firing pan with activated carbon media. PMC® has a strong adverse reaction to contact with aluminum. Do not use aluminum tools or allow your PMC to come into contact with any aluminum object.
| Original PMC | PMC+ | PMC3 |
PMC Sterling |
Sterling - cast - |
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| Metal | Fine silver | Fine silver | Fine silver | 92.5% silver alloy | 92.5% silver alloy |
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Metal Content |
77% clay weight | 90% clay weight | 90% clay weight | 90% clay weight | - |
| Shrinkage (size) | 25–30% | 10–15% | 10–15% | 15–20% | - |
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Suggested Firing |
1650ºF 120 min. |
1650ºF 10 min. + |
1650ºF 120 min. |
1000ºF in air/30 min. 1500º F in carbon/30 min. |
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| Elongation | 15% | 30% | 35% | 28% | 35% |
| Tensile Strength |
60 N/mm2 |
130 N/mm2 |
140 N/mm2 |
190 N/mm2 |
310 N/mm2 |
| Bending Strength |
30 N/mm2 |
50 N/mm2 |
30 N/mm2 |
160 N/mm2 |
240 N/mm2 |
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Surface Hardness ( Vickers) |
n/a | 30 HV | 30 HV | 50 HV | 60 HV |
| Density | 7.9 g/cm3 | 9.5 g/cm3 | 9.9 g/cm3 | 9.3 g/cm3 | 10.4 g/cm3 |
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Using PMC Sterling In Your Bench Work, Part 1
PMC can be a boon to your business at the bench and in the design room—see how in this video!
Using PMC Sterling In Your Bench Work, Part 2
PMC can be a boon to your business at the bench and in the design room—see how in this video!
Learn how to make an attractive PMC Sterling™ cuff bracelet in this project from Thomas Flores.
Learn how to make these PMC Sterling and black onyx earrings designed by Wannaree Tanner using her Celtic Inspirations Dynasty Stamp. <br/>
PMC® and a fan coral pattern sheet are used to create a unique pendant that is finished with silk cord in this idea project from Rio Grande.
In this project from Rio Grande, you can follow the instructions of Candace Gates to create this beautifully textured and accented "Lava Ring" using the "Funky Fauna" Dynasty master sheet designed by award-winning metal clay designer Gordon Uyehara.
Form, forge, texture and more—anything you can do with a piece of metal you can do with PMC Sterling™! In this day-and-a-half class, learn how to elevate your metal clay designs using the workability and strength of PMC Sterling. And Rio provides all the tools and equipment you'll need for the class.
Rio Grande’s Rio Rewards PMC® Certification Program is designed for the serious and dedicated PMC enthusiast who seeks the recognition that a standardized level of expertise offers. Taught by a world-class instructor over the course of three days, the curriculum is demanding and tests specific skills and techniques (apart from artistry) for working with PMC. Upon completion, students enjoy discounts on more than 1,000 products as a member of the Rio Rewards program.
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