Dhathu collection – Leaves

Here is the second installment of Dhathu – my metal jewellery collection. For those of you who are new here, Dhathu means both metal and root of all life so I have created a collection of jewelry keeping both these meanings in mind. You can read about my previous post on peacock themed jewelry here and about the design process of the collection here
 In this post I would like to showcase all my designs from this collection which have been derived from Leaves. The first two are from Dhathu I which comprises of handmade metal components, sketched, hand cut and formed by me and in the latter two (from Dhathu:II) I have used store bought components

Leaf earrings

Lotus leaves necklace

 Peepal leaves Necklace: A half and half necklace of gold color and off white dyed shell beads with the focus being the brass peepal pendant with patina inks. I tried blocthing technique here and I think that works well especially when the base has some sort of texture – in this case lines

Triple golden leaf necklace:  I also wanted to create a simple piece that didnt involve any patina. So I choose three golden color metal leaves and sort of stitched them up together with wire. This is my favourite cold connections technique. The crystals used I think just add the right amount of bling.

Those were the four leaf based designs in the collection, what do you think of them?

 I hope you find it interesting
Cheers