Jewelry design

[Ashley]

Nora- what a treat thanks! The Atlier Zobel ring is absolutely gorgeous, and my second choice! Actually I agonized over it...

 

[nlerner]

The ugliest for me:

In the gold: many

In the natural color diamonds: I can't decide between Dynamic International and Roberto Demeglio

In the colored gemstones: Vincente Agor (what a mess.....)

In the Haute Couture: K.Brunini and Arman for Fragments

In the Newcomers: Boaz Kashi and Sofragem

 

[Ashley]

LOL - making me giggle

 

[gravityalwayswins]

This topic reminds me of some ideas I found recently when looking for earring designs for pearls. These pieces are amazing. Don't have to love their work, but ya gotta admit the ideas are neat. I happen to love some of the work, too. I'm impressed with the birds from the baroque pearls.

Lorenz Baumer (www.lorenzbaumer.com) for everything but the necklace, which is Stephen Webster (www.stephenwebster.com). Caitlin - if I'm breaking some rule about posting designers' pics, I apologize and please pull them as you see fit.

I think that necklace would be the perfect thing to wear to my company uber-formal Christmas party that's full of conservative gov't and military types. It's got just enough "don't mess with me!" attitude!

Carol

 

[Amrita]

Wow, Carol! Thanks for the pictures! I really love the designs that you've posted, especially the second pair of earrings with the white and pink diamonds(?) and the pink drop pearls. Beautiful! (sigh...). The ring is lovely too ...so delicate..

 

[nlerner]

Thanks Carol, I like the second, third and fourth piece, although on the fourth piece I would prefer white pearls.

 

[perlas]

I love the bird earrings!!! A jewelry piece you'd pay a premium on.

It seems like a long time since I've posted but there's a lot of improvements on the site!

Anyway, check out this weaved pearls. This is something I got (I wish I could make it myself). The materials are pretty cheap (just seed pearls) but there must me so much time spent making a piece!

I particularly love the dyed bronze. They look like acorns.

 

[Amrita]

How about voting now for the ugliest design?

Hi Nora! Ugliest, huh? Well, I think in the newcomers section, I would vote for BoaZ KashI; in the Haute Couture section, it would have to be K. Brunini; in the colored gemstones section I can't decide between Atelier Zobel and Vincente Agor.......

Hey, this is really naughty isn't it?

 

[nlerner]

Hey, this is really naughty isn't it?

Hi Amrita,

Just wait, we still have to vote for the weirdest and than the most ridiculous.......

 

[jerin]

Hi Carol,

I like 1, 2 and 5 best. All of them are beautiful in their own way but the necklace is great in design in my opinion. Thanks for sharing the pics.

 

[Caitlin]

Caitlin - if I'm breaking some rule about posting designers' pics, I apologize and please pull them as you see fit.

Can you put up a link? We have never had a complaint from any designer yet. So many people will see this- it is good to have links, then people can actually go to the site, if anything appeals to them. Voila! We are a site that promotes sales for them........who could complain about that?


I love, love, love the birdies, but I would wear them with a shorter chain

 

[Caitlin]

check out this weaved pearls

That looks like peyote stitch as it is known in the bead world. That stitch results in the laid brick effect. It is painstaking work-especially if you put a design in it. I once made a long necklace made of this stich and iridescent blue beads with a very tiny diamond pattern. I often had to undo it for a row or two to fix something- a missed stitch esp. Below are some key ring holders from powwows.com LINK

 

[Ashley]

I LOVE Love Love the Bird Earrings!! Love them I say!!

Stephen Webster has been one of my favorite designers for awhile now- I recall seeing that necklace done all in White diamonds with some kind of blue stone shaped to look like pearls about a year or so ago...

 

[Caitlin]

Are those earrings from Stephen Webster?

 

[Ashley]

I think gravity said they were from Lorenz Baumer... They are too fabulous aren't they?! Funny- I just re-read through the last couple of responses and I see both you and I had the exact same response! I guess great minds think alike!

 

[perlas]

Hi Caitlin,

How long does it take you to do the an inch of the peyote stitch? I think it would look nice on gemstone beads made into opera necklace.

 

[Caitlin]

Hi Sam
Opera length peyote stitch with what size gemstones? Like those seed pearls? Although much larger than beads, that would be quite a project!

I should have said peyote stitch is the most challenging kind of beading and although I learned it, I never got over dropping stitches and such, thus I did more undoing than doing, but I did finish that project. (Whew!)

Where were the necklaces you posted made?


In any case, all the beads need to be the same size or the stitches get messy looking. I have even had to undo to change out beads when the variation was to big.

I put that second picture in wrong and messed the post up and now the edit and all the other buttons are gone.

 

[perlas]

Hi Caitlin,

I plan on small gemstones the size of the seed pearls.

The peyote pearls are just made here by a beader. She just had 4 pieces but all sold out. (colors were mauve, white, bronze, and peach).

I do not know if the beader was pulling my leg but she said it takes a month to make (necklace and bracelet) and she has to look for stocks of seed pearl strands. She said 10 strands for the necklace and bracelet.

I asked her to make me an opera length peyote pearl necklace and the beader hasn't come back to me yet. If it's painstakingly difficult to make then an opera gemstone necklace would probably stay as a figment of my imagination unless I ask the beader to do it for me (if she agrees...)

 

[Caitlin]

Peyote stitch takes a fine craftsman/woman. It is rather unforgiving. Easy to make mistakes and any mistake looks really bad, including variations in sizes. If regular length takes 8-10 strands, opera length would be double that.


If I were you I would start collecting the gem stones- that in itself is a project-to get them all the same size. It may take double the amount of strands to get matching sizes.


If you gather all the gemstones needed, you may be able to talk the beader into doing it.

 

[knotty panda]

Caitlin, have you ever seen a piece done in Peyote that length? I haven't that I can recall. I think you're right, not only would it be a labor-intensive undertaking, the cost would be prohibitive imo. The reason seed beads work so well in Peyote is you must pass through the bead numerous times and the holes are very large compared to gemstone drill holes. I'm not sure it's feasible.