Chalcedony pendant

Chalcedony is one of the most beautiful gemstones. This stone has unigue glow and raw stones really glows out in field.

This pendant is made of sterling silver. Several techniques were needed. Necklace is made simple Viking weave style and the ends are sand casted silver. Pendant is made of silver sheat and filigree wire.

kalsedoni riipus

Memory stick case

Memory sticks are boring looking plastic items so I decided to make sterling silver case to my 8G memorystick. This case has Greater-spotted Eagle silhouet on it.

Muistitikku hopeaa

kiljukotka hopeaa

Titanic

My friend Katja Palmu designs murdermysteries. She needed adverticement pictures for her newest Titanic murder mystery. So Titanic dress I made years a go was necessary. We made photoshoot in old Titanic era house since ship was not available :)

Titanic dress

This dressa has 2 layers. Under dress is just ordinary dress that can be used in small parties. Outer dress is made of net hand embroidered with seedbeads and sequins.

Titanic costume

Viking style neck ring

Arkeological finds in Lämsä and Puolanka made me to try making iron age Viking style neck ring.

First test piece was cuff bracelet.

One and half millimeters thigh sterling silver wire had to be thinned of ends.
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langan veto

Thinned silver wires were braided by hand together.
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Four sets of braided wires were twisted together by hand.

Here the cuff is after soldering the ends.
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Next I decided to make neck ring. I used 8 one millimeter thigh sterling silver wires that were not thinned this time. Thiggening shape was made during twisting. In the center of the center wire I used paper to give thigness.

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Almost finished piece.

Kaularengas

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kaularengas

Dragonfly haircomb

I finally finished this dragonfly haircomb that has been under progress for more than year! Comb is made of juniper that has been dried for 30 years. Body of the insect is made of sand cast silver and wings of silver wire filigree.

korukampa, Hanna Aalto, sudenkorento