Kathryn Kinev has been into jewelry ever since she was a child.
By 1977 she was designing and making jewelry for friends. After working for other jewelers for several years, she started her own business, Jewel Creations, Inc., from the closet in her apartment in 1983 while attending Georgia State University in Atlanta. Only two years later she moved into a shop in the prestigious Buckhead area of Atlanta where she stayed for over 15 years.
She really does do it all: designs, appraisals, and repairs, alloys her own metals, draws her own gold wire, and weaves her own gold mesh.
She is also one of the very rare jewelers who uses granulation, an ancient and time-consuming technique of applying tiny spheres of gold to a surface.
Though it is not her main activity, she also has exceptional skill at repairing jewelry. It is not unusual for another jeweler to come to her with a particularly tough repair job.
