Blog Task week 6/7

Ruth Baird

Clematis Crochet Necklace Green

Dated 2013, size: Unknown

List of materials used in her work:

Silver, titanium and niobium. Also gold and semi-precious stones. Fabrication, cold –joining and the surfacing and colouring of the reactive metals. Fine wire, pure silver, niobium and enamelled wire.

Ideas I think she does with her work is creating objects that are beautiful and powerful and which touch other people. Also having a great connection with nature itself having a great inspiration on her work.

This piece of work i picked out of her great collection of others really caught my eye, not only does it remind me of what my mother wears but also takes me back to my background roots. I have a very stronge connection to this particular work. 

  

Ruth Baird

Blogg task week 5

 VINTAGE GLASS NECKLACES

Dated SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

size 5cm in height

By Castaway jewellers

These really creative and pretty necklaces are made with love and a few other things. Find a small vintage glass bottle and clean & soak if needed. Next add a chain from an old necklace or a thrift store that is a length you would like. Look through your old jewelry for charms or use some pieces of beach glass or polished old tiles from old broken pottery or old plates or cups. Wire the bottle around the neck and add the chain. Leave a few inches of chain dangling down to hook the charms up to. If you are using items like beach glass, just wrap the wire around the tile and hook with a couple of craft store rings. Now comes the most important part – Find some really pretty beach sand and fill. Add a hand written poem or an inspirational word and add a cork .

Materials:

• Small glass bottle recycled. Soak and Clean if needed
• Cork, small jump rings – Craft Store
• Chain – use an old necklace or craft store or flea market find
• Adornments – old charms, tiles, beach glass, old earrings, button, even an old small key

Link

http://www.recyclart.org/

Blogg task week 4

Ben Beattie

Pounamu

Dated 2012 size: 6 cm wide

What I personally like and enjoy about this piece of work, is that its famously recognised  as an New Zealand jewellery icon, Green stone widely known as a form of green nephrite jade found in the South Island of New Zealand.

Also because the designs used in Maori artwork ( necklaces, pendants, wood carvings, tattoo, etc) all carry a spiritual meaning.  Early Maori did not have a written history, so their arts and crafts took on the role of being a record of spiritual values and beliefs, as well as a historical family record. 

Bone and greenstone jade ( pounamu) pendants and necklaces, worn against the skin and passed down through the generations, were believed to absorb the spirit of the person who wore them, making them a powerful connection to people passed.

Hei Tiki

Dated 2012 size 7cm wide

Meaning of Hei-Tiki:

The Maori believe Hei-Tiki was the first man in the Maori world; he came from the stars. Hei-Tiki is a powerful good-luck symbol. Tilted head is thinking, hand is strength, mouth communication, heart is love and loins fertility. The wearer of the Hei-Tiki is assumed to be clear-thinking, perceptive, loyal and knowledgeable; their strength is their character.

Materials used:

The kinds of stone formerly employed for stone tools were rehu (?flint), pounamu (nephrite), mataa(quartz, flint), and onewa; while fine parts of carving were finished with minute toki made of shells, such as those of the paua, kororiwha, andtoitoi.