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· March 24, 2008 9:25 PM by
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Posted by Colleen Shirazi, Monday, March 24, 2008 8:23 PM (Eastern)
Back when I was fiddling around with these:
...it wasn't the norm to make earring frames. Standard practice was to buy readymade frames, attach stones and call it a day.
Lately however there's been a bit of innovation in handmade earring frames. I was scrolling through Etsy last night, looking for ideas for spiral earrings, since I had it in mind to make some.
One of the nicest merchants I stumbled across was the Nina Rossi Jewelry site:
Fleur de Lis chandeliers spiral amethyst brio earrings
Gizelle Swarovski . Black garnet 14k gf hoops earrings
Part of the fun here is "How did she do it?" but I'm seeing a lot of square wire, with fine-gauge wire "soldering" the pieces together. Really dig her combination of herringbone weave and beaded bezel techniques to frame the black garnets.
On to the Natural Jewels shop:
These examples have a slightly more rustic flavor (though she has pieces on the site which defy gravity). I love how she used graduated shades of hessonite to produce a vivid, yet also subtle, line of color.
Kelly Lyn Raspa:
Got a bit sidetracked here, but what a killer heart pendant. She has hammered skull earrings breathing fresh air into the skull motif, a ship necklace, and much more.
Finally, the spiral design I was seeking, at Jewelry by Natsuko:
Mind you, I'm not going to duplicate these exactly. But they are the perfect spiral, balanced off by longer "stems."
Labels: etsy, fashion notes, indie, jewelry
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March 24, 2008 9:25 PM,
Soooo.....
How do you wear those last ones?
'Cause those are pretty sweet looking!
March 24, 2008 9:51 PM,
Hey, how are ya?
I just made a pair based on this spiral, though they're quite different from Natsuko's. I didn't oxidize them, so they don't have that blackened look (it's not hard to oxidize silver, you can use a hard-boiled egg to darken it, then you can use silver polish to brighten the areas you want to highlight).
Mine are hammered but not chased, so they're flat and shiny in places, and hard (hammering hardens wire) but not textured.
You just take the straight side and put it in your ear lobe. The stem balances the spiral so the earrings hang straight rather than leaning forward.
I put three little moonstones on mine...my daughter did some of the wrapped wire on a couple of them. I had to laugh when she did it, because it took me years to do a good wrapped loop.
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