Jewelry, inspired by Nature
Handmade jewellery design
Tumbled gemstone jewellery is challenging for a jewelry maker. Their irregular shapes are difficult to fit into a standard bezel. Very often the only way to hang them onto something is to drill a hole through them. Drilling requires special … Continued
Reproducing custom made jewellery is very difficult. Here is just a story. I received an order to reproduce a pair of earrings with a different stone color. It looked quite easy, but turned out to be a real challenge. … Continued
It can be challenging to duplicate.objects when making silver clay earrings Lizards have fantastic body shapes: ideal to be shaped in silver clay. Making a lizard on a leaf pendant is probably no big deal, but making earrings is a … Continued
These are the silver clay cat earrings… They are not exact copies of each other, but come quite close.
Yesterday, in attempt to recycle an absolutely failed fine silver piece, I melted the silver to a lump which vaguely reminded me of a tulip. After some carving and filing the tulip shape became so distinct that I decided to … Continued
Making earrings has always been my biggest challenge. I don’t like duplicating anything, let alone mirror-duplicate. Sometimes I envy the ‘hot of the press’ serial jewelry production: 1000 copies and all perfect. But I love artistic freedom and there’s a … Continued
The most magical feature of silver clay is the possibility to make silver clay molds of nearly everything: from living flowers to artifacts made long ago by our ancestors. I have inherited from my great-grandmother some antique wood carvings, among … Continued
In the course of 2011 silver clay prices have almost doubled, though silver as such showed rather stable price dynamics. The shops put the blame on the high yen exchange rate, but I guess that precious metal clay has just … Continued
How to make fallen leaves eternal? Make leaf fine silver jewellery! It’s been quite a while since my last post. Many things have happened since then. The summer came and went. Actually, this year in the Netherlands was ‘a year … Continued