All that writing about ancient jewelry has been quite a pain in the neck(literally) i have decided to shift to simple and light hearted stuff…
Beading is quite fun to start with. But after 500 designs i started getting bored and wanted to explore other forms of costume jewelry. It was then I chanced about wire wrapping and recycle craft. wire wrapping is quite wonderful but it requires a great deal of patience and practise and am still trying to get a hang of it. So for the time being let me stick to recycle art – specifically to accessories(not just jewelry) made form Paper & scrap fabric dotted with whatever beads and findings I could find(orphan/single beads are great for projects like these).
Fortunately or unfortunately a design school degree often prompts you to think in a certain regulated direction…In this case a colour story. I have divided my whole project into 4 colour blocks – blue/blacks, reds/pinks, greens and gold/yellows. Here are pics of some of them
Paper Jewelry
This was around the same time I discovered paper jewelry. At that time didn’t realise that it was a Victorian tradition for women of the household to gather around the table after lunch to roll beads from scrap of paper to be used as curtains and room separators
Also I would to share with all of you a great tutorial sheet I had found on bead rolling on the internetRosettes – I love flowers and fabric. I have a large collection of fabrics that I had collected during my college days and decided to make something out of them. So i turned them into brooches, hairbands, hairclips and earrings. Soon I started making paper/ newspaper rosettes. These are great for gift wrapping/ packaging and even display
Fortunately or unfortunately a design school degree often prompts you to think in a certain regulated direction…In this case a colour story. I have divided my whole project into 4 colour blocks – blue/blacks, reds/pinks, greens and gold/yellows. Here are pics of some of them
Paper Jewelry
This was around the same time I discovered paper jewelry. At that time didn’t realise that it was a Victorian tradition for women of the household to gather around the table after lunch to roll beads from scrap of paper to be used as curtains and room separators
Also I would to share with all of you a great tutorial sheet I had found on bead rolling on the internet
Rosettes – I love flowers and fabric. I have a large collection of fabrics that I had collected during my college days and decided to make something out of them. So i turned them into brooches, hairbands, hairclips and earrings. Soon I started making paper/ newspaper rosettes. These are great for gift wrapping/ packaging and even display
When you create a line as eclectic as this why wrap it up in boring ziplocks and squishy plastic bags. So I came up up some paper bags and newspaper boxes to pack them.
This is just a few pieces of my first collection. Am constantly on the lookout for more techniques and in the process of putting together my second collection. Would get back soon with more.
Cheers
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