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Textile Style: Celebrate spring in the boldest, most dramatic way–with a blue butterfly on your wrist! This cuff features a large pool blue linen butterfly decorated with a vintage luster glazed button and backed with a blue and silver print. The butterfly is mounted on a gorgeous platinum silk band that’s hand-embroidered with vines and tiny blue buds. The cuff is lined with plum linen and closes with a shimmery shell button.
You look at this necklace and think it is fabric, right? Read on.
Wendy Hacker-Moss: Over 200 large stainless steel florets are handfolded origami style and attached to a sterling silver chain. 4 mm blue fresh water pearls are set in the center of the florets.
In the process of creating, each flower is tended to carefully, worked and shaped by hand, and then securely attached to either a sterling silver hand-woven, linked or chain-mail base structure. Attachment is not haphazard or random, but rather repetitive and exacting with a gestalt sensibility, so as to create thickets of form from material. The process is meditative and prayer-like in nature.
Imbued with meaning, objects may carry history from one generation to the next–just as jewelry passed from parent to child may transmit history from one generation to the next. My intention is to create a lasting representation of that which in nature is fleeting. For me, this is a way to memorialize the ephemeral in a sturdy form.
I love these elegant glass earrings made with the burnerwork technique.
By Knap.
{ Update 2 from the artist: “The ‘torch work’ is called ‘burner work’ in Japan. It looks like the technique for making the lamp work bead, and is not too difficult. The knack is to use the glass made in Japan. The glass made in Japan is low melting point, and sticky. Therefore, it is possible to combine with silver.” }
{ Update for those who have asked about ‘burnerwork’ – Heather Palmer tells me that it is also called ‘lampwork’, ‘flamework’ or ‘torchwork’ and I think those names are more familiar. This explains why I had a hard time googling ‘burnerwork’ when I was writing this post… Thanks Heather! }
Update: Commenter #32 elena mary siff is the winner!
SSheilah Jewelry and Accessories has offered this beautiful pair of inlaid earrings hand-made from desert ironwood, one of the rarest and most beautiful hardwoods in North America. Desert ironwood is similar to cats-eye stone in its translucency and has a lovely, intricate grain. The nickel-silver pattern is hand-inlaid.
To enter to win these lovely earrings (value $24), just leave one comment on this post and/or twitter about it once. {rules} Contest closes midnight Pacific time on Friday, Feb 19. Good luck!
Oh, and if you’re a maker of handmade goods, don’t forget to enter our contest to win a Lifetime Free Premium Shop on Zibbet.
Update: the winner is #39, Asma!
Gaze upon these fantastic pendants made from felt and buttons, and you’ll see why you’re going to want to be wearing these colorful beauties this spring and summer.
Poor Robin specializes in handmade jewelry in the mediums of buttons and felt. What started out as something to mess around with while waiting for a silver order to ship for my first shop has become a successful and thriving color peddling concern! I take a huge amount of joy from seeing different color combinations come together harmoniously, so any customer is sure to get a treasure that was made with love.
To enter to win your choice of whimsical felt pendant (value $16), just leave a comment on this post. {rules} Contest closes midnight Pacific time on Friday, May 8. Good luck!
