Dreams of Silver and Gold

Inventory: Assorted projects.

Photographing some pieces from the last few years, mostly things I’ve made in silversmithing classes & kept for myself. Favourites: cloud necklace, hammered chain bracelet.

Inventory: Necklaces #5.

Shell pendant cast in cuttlefish bone.

Cuttlefish bone is soft and chalky—you saw the bone in half and then either carve a design or press an object into it to make a mold. After making a channel for the molten silver, you wire the two halves back together and pour the liquid silver into the mold. The “wet sand” pattern is from the bone itself.

Inventory: Earrings #1

Scrollwork earrings loosely based on 5th-6th century earrings from the Mediterranean. Sterling silver.

Photographing some of my practice work from silversmithing classes from the last couple of years…

Inventory: Necklaces #4.

Made this pea pod necklace in one of my first classes—beginner’s luck! The peas are copper—wish I hadn’t polished them for the photos, as they get a lovely dark orangey-red patina.

Inventory: Necklaces #1

No silver work here (except for clasp), but a few necklaces from the last few years.

Inventory: Rings #2

Photographing some of my practice work from silversmithing classes from the last couple of years.

Stone setting, granulation, scrollwork.

Labradorite ring with granulation, inspired by Italian renaissance jewelry.

Tri-band ring—three rings soldered together, with silver and copper granules applied. Needed more/larger silver/copper balls—didn’t quite achieve the look I wanted.

Scrollwork ring. A pain in the butt to make. Wear it every day!

Inventory: Rings #1

I’m photographing some of my practice work from silversmithing classes from the last couple of years.

Riveting practice. Bead rings, sterling silver, textured in rolling mill.