Me and my mania for shiny things
Candle guard made with vintage crystals and glass gems assembled in a tiara shape with solder in tin, silver and copper alloy.
J'adore
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Io e la mia mania per le cose luccicose
Me and my mania for shiny things
Candle guard made with vintage crystals and glass gems assembled in a tiara shape with solder in tin, silver and copper alloy.
J'adore
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Io e la mia mania per le cose luccicose
I've been thinking about making an angel all day, maybe because I dreamt one last night.
It came to me like this... now I'm going to sleep more serene.
E' tutto il giorno che penso di realizzare un angelo, sarà che ne ho sognato uno stanotte.
Mi è venuto così... ora vado a dormire più serena
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time: 3 minutes (and about 250 steps in case of reading while walking)
Today I'm inaugurating the realization of a project that I managed to carry out by taking advantage of this very bad and long period in which my real job, tourism, is practically locked. I had been poking around on the web for years, dwelling on this technique of "Soldering Jewelry Broken China", that is, welding jewelry with fragments of broken Chinese plates, which is much more widespread in the United States. I always thought I couldn't do it, too many materials to get and too much precision required both in cutting and finishing the pieces and in soldering for me, who am a messy person and is at ease if I can create with just the use of my hands. For months now, between one lockdown and another, I had been wandering around junk and second-hand markets looking for loose, dated porcelain, whether from Bavaria or England or China or Italy, as long as it evoked romantic floral patterns or landscapes or scenes of country life, precious or not, in both bright and subtle colors, to make two- or three-tier buffet stands with plates from another era to be drilled to insert the pin. Unfortunately, the first time I drilled a hole in a plate I messed up... yes, the plate has broken. I had to get the hand with the drill on the porcelain, sensitive but hard, look for the right tips and continue changing the tip from the first, very small, up to the largest and right to enter the pin.... and so it was ... slowly. However, it was unthinkable for me to have to give up that broken plate, so I took advantage of that opportunity to deepen the study of the technique of Broken China in order to reuse the shards and since then I have no longer broken plates unintentionally, but only voluntarily. I then began to study chemistry as I had not even done at school, metals and their symbols, alloys, merger. I bought the necessary tools, had fun going to markets to look for the most interesting plates to break, shape them, solder them to create unique pendants to be mounted on steel chains with or without tone-on-tone beads or light single or multi-colored aluminium rosaries, and in the end I was able to revive my very first love, which was jewelry making, A passion that I began to cultivate in secondary school when I used to make brooches with das (a special paste), or bracelets with a loom, to weave the names of my school friends with beads, rings and earrings. I remember that I used to buy the materials in a small shop, which I discovered still exists, not far from Piazza Navona in Rome, standing in long queues before going in, with a list of accessories and small parts to be bought in a hurry, because behind me there were people clinging to me, frantic to get to the counter and get those precious materials. Over time, thanks to my curiosity, which can only rival that of a cat, I have acquired new techniques with which to create eco-sustainable jewelry and accessories for women, all aimed at recovering materials such as certain fabrics used to make discarded clothes. Those who know me know that my specialty is handmade roses made from more or less precious fabrics and assembling them to create necklaces, bracelets, hats or retro headbands or applying them to the necklines of second-hand clothes or even regenerating vintage handbags. With the Broken China technique, I can experiment with combinations of materials that have been used up to now, from fabrics to crystals, vintage buttons, porcelain or ceramics. In the meantime, after having rediscovered my patience, my stubbornness, my ability to concentrate and my desire to always try out new things, I have created these treasures, each one a unique piece, with its imperfections, some intentional, others random, after hours spent experimenting, making mistakes, undoing and trying again. Each of them is embraced and protected by an eco-sustainable packaging as it is itself a decorative element, strictly hand sewn and made with recycled fabrics. I hope you like them, I love them, all of them.
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