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The Stones in the Wire Crochet Jewellery

Brazilian artist Miriam Chor Freitas, who now lives in California, learned to crochet wire jewelry in  Peru.  Her work is unique, one-of-a-kind and very pretty to look at. Her style combines the unique influence of her  Brazilian background and a laid back California lifestyle with influences from both fine jewelry and artisan crafting. The handcrafted crochet combined with other elements of handcrafted jewelry work elevate the items to a state of art. Her jewellery is wearable for everyday for the wearer. "The highlight of our work is a flawless crochet technique that creates perfectly symmetrical stitches that result in amazing eye-catching wire jewelry designs.”  

Reference:

http://www.crochetconcupiscence.com/2013/01/wire-crochet-jewelry-artist-miriam-freitas/   

Cuff Bracelet with Seed Beads
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Crochet Flower bib necklace, made in gold, silver, copper and colored wire

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The designer that I got is Yannik Mur. She is a French artist. Every year she launches a new collection. Her collections tend to stand out because of the way she combines wire work with precious and rough materials. She also uses crochet to create her jewellery and create the sense of line with in her jewellery. By her doing or using these material these material and techniques it gives her pieces that form of elegance and causal style, which allows the wearer to wear it everyday. With my research I am looking into crochet and mixing precious material with non-precious materials, and the style of my jewellery should be elegant and causal so that the wearer is able to wear the jewelley everyday.

Reference:

(Nattalio Martin Arroyo,2012,The Sourcebook of Contemporary Jewellery Design,Paco Asensio,pg 594-599)

Ebene Ring
Ebony with crochet 18 karat whit gold wire

Jonc Ring
Compressed crochet with 18 karat white gold wire 

Plexivoir Necklace
Vegetable ivory seed in its original form inlaid with precious stone
(topaz, tourmaline,amethyst,coralline and onyx) and silicone cord

  

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The technique that I will be making use of is to incorporate the crochet with solid metal, by either making crochet elements out of  crochet yarn or wool  which I set in to metal. Then I would also use wire to crochet jewellery pieces which are in 3 dimension forms. I will be making use of geometric shapes as well as to look at things in nature whether its plants or animals. The materials I would like to put together and crochet a piece with metal and yarn together in one piece will use the yarn as contrast of colour with either the gold or silver wire.

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B-Tech Proposal

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I was inspired by crochet techniques and designs. I explored with the patterns and the stitches from the crochet. I then explored with the use of punches to create the look of crochet by making use of plate. I also used wire to crochet but I was exploring in crochet 3 dimension objects as I didn't want to work with flat objects. I want my B-Tech question to explore 3 dimension objects in crochet  with use of mixed materials like yarn and silver, gold wire. i would like to in corporate this technique with commercial jewellry that one will be able to wear it everyday. how I see that if I could incorporate it with commercial jewellery it could be a great contribution to elegance of everyday jewellery. Even though this technique is being already made use in jewellery, but not many make use of mixing actual precious metal with the crochet yarn.     

Platinum Project

Silver Piece

Crochet Designing 

Mood board: exploring of the stitches and the patterns of the crochet designs

Exploring with the different punches, and trying different patterns and  forms

final piece

I was inspired by crochet techniques and designs. I explored with the patterns and the stitches from the crochet. I then explored with the punches and when I finally got what I wanted then I made use of Rhino 5D to design my final piece so that I can have it aligned and that i could get the proper affect of the crochet feeling.  

PATTERN DEVELOPMENT

BLOG POST 2: CLAY ELEMENTS

PATTERN WHERE CLAY ELEMENT COMES FROM

CLAY ELEMENT ARRANGEMENT 1

For this arrangement what worked well is the layering of it and what I found interesting the form that it made like a cross. 

CLAY ELEMENT ARRANGEMENT 2

The 3D form together with the 2D form worked well with each other, what I like about is how the complement each other.  

CLAY ELEMENT ARRANGEMENT 3

What worked her is that they touched each other and at the same time others are not touching which allowed the negative space to form a pattern, and this what I like which was the negative pattern it formed. 

PATTERN WHERE CLAY ELEMENT COMES FROM

CLAY ELEMENT ARRANGEMENT 1

How the 3D  and 2D shapes complement each other, what I liked of this is the fact that it formed some kind of a cross.

CLAY ELEMENT ARRANGEMENT 2

How the 3D  and 2D shapes complement each other, what I liked of this the feel of it looking like a flower, which brings a bit of a feminine feeling to it.   

CLAY ELEMENT ARRANGEMENT 3

What worked with this arrangement is that each element was not touching but still form a shape, which is kind of circular, what I like of this arrangement is the negative spaced that it formed.   

How the 3D  and 2D shapes complement each other, as well
as the layering of it, the things that I like of this arrangement
is the double crosses that formed as well as the negative space. 

These elements worked well together as you can see the 2D shapes
complements the 3D shapes, as you see the curves of the 2D co insides with
rounded curves of the 3D shapes, what I liked is how some of the negative
spaces formed into a pattern.   

These two elements worked together allowing me use them form
the arrangement which I came too and allowed  me too form negative
spaces that are interesting, what I liked of this arrangement
is the arrangement itself as well as the negative space
it formed inbetween the tear drop shape.  

PATTERN DEVELOPMENT

BLOG POST 1: WALK THROUGH THE MARKET

PAGE 1 OF MARKET DRAWINGS

PAGE 2 OF MARKET DRAWINGS

PAGE 3 OF MARKET DRAWINGS

FABRIC: SHWESHWE1

FABRIC:SHWESHWE2

Walking through the market was a different experience for me. Normally when I walk through the market it would be i would just walk to where I'm going to and not look around me. I have noticed so many things and even though some of them I have seen before, but this time I looked at them with a different perception and view from what I would normally look at them. Walking through the Victoria Market, seeing the various bead works was very interesting and the shop of the traditional mask I found it paranormal and i could relate to the techniques used as they are similar to what we also use in jewellery, for example chasing technique. The fabric we chose has a variety of patterns on it, which allows me to play alot with shapes to form patterns as well as to develop different shapes too. What I like about the fabric is that it has geometric shapes as well as a flowery feel to it, which doesn't limit you. Overall the experience was great and very helpful in terms of the designing process.

Perceptions of jewellery

What perceptions that people associate jewellery with?

Designer: Silvia Beccaria

http://klimt02.net/jewellers/silvia-beccaria

Silvia Beccaria

Ruff: Splendor, 2010
Nylon, aluminium
Photo by Silvia Paganino

http://klimt02.net/jewellers/silvia-beccaria

Silvia Beccaria
Ruff: Splendor, 2010
Nylon, aluminium
Photo by Silvia Paganino

http://klimt02.net/jewellers/silvia-beccaria

Most of the time people tend to associate jewellery with metal like gold silver,etc; they also associated with diamonds, and flashy expensive stones. They believe that 'real' jewellery is made of precious materials. This  is not true because I believe that good jewellery can be made out of any materials, whether it is from recycle material or precious metals. The designer Silvia Beccaria makes use of non-recycled, anonymous, marginal materials like PVC, rubber, plastic, latex, polyurethane. Jewellery like this allows one to express your personality and style, where at times the standard commercial jewellery  to be more of wealth status, religious purposes, and social status. Jewellery that includes other material are seen more as today's fashion trend and its very creative and arty.  

The reason why I chose this perception is because when ever I talk to people about jewellery, the first thing that they think of is expensive flashy metals and stones. They believe that contemporary jewellery is cheap unless it has precious metal and stones. This I would want to change of people that think like that, because I believe that contemporary jewellery is so beautiful and it is able to complement many with there personalities, and it reflects alot of today's society  and what we are.

Circus Cannetille Piece

Post Three

Full view of the necklace and pendant

Close view of the pendant

Front view of the pendant

Top view of the pendant

Working on this project was very interesting. The topic itself made think beyond my my normal way of thinking with regards to designing. I felt more free and playful as I was designing it. Making the piece was had its challenges but it was not that difficult. only thing that I realized as I was manufacturing my piece is when i was soldering the ball on the bottom plate, was to make sure that it was soldered properly and that everything was held together before cutting the tabs off , because I did not do that and when I cut off the tabs some of the pieces cam loose and had to re-solder  the other pieces back on.  Overall the project was a success as managed to finish the piece in time and i learnt to work on a time scale so that even if something goes wrong you still have time to correct it. 

Circus Canettille Piece

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First step from my reference

First step from my reference

Shape was formed from the first two pictures 

Come from the the first two pictures with elements from another drawing

Played with alignment and pattern, made use of these elements in the picture above 

Tried alignment and unity to from different shapes

This drawing derived from the pattern on the top, arranged harmoniously

This derived from the third picture, will be the second layer of my pendant

Will be the layer on top of the second layer

Top picture is the bottom layer, circle will be the centre piece on the bottom layer

Paper prototype 

Final drawing of  how the piece will look

Firstly I played exploring with the basic shapes to find different shapes. I used forms of arrangement along the line to make patterns, to try and form some form of movement that will lead to a focal point.I have arranged the elements in a harmonious arrangement and I repeated the objects with in the harmonious arrangement.