Bag Charms

Through experimentation with acrylic and learning how to dye small pieces in boiling liquid. I have created intriguing bags charms and key fobs, some in sparkly two tone acrylic, some in decliate soft shades, with their own nut and bolts included.

Perplexed!

 

Puzzle jewellery, a hard media folded and moulded into interesting shapes taken from samples and experiments from a researched historic piece of clothing.

Perplexed, jewellery range

Acrylic bent in three ways in 30 seconds, its difficult to handle hot acrylic in heavy duty gloves and form a appealing shapes. Making sure the screw holes all lined up with  tactile moving parts.

Perspex lace collar

A man’s Elizabethan collar, would normally fit neatly on top of a Jerkin or a Doublet, a small delicate lace ruff, to project to the world class and status. My necklace is created from individual hand sculptured pieces of perspex. The light bounces off of the laser cut holes,  threaded and intwined onto a choker style necklace. A light, versatile and unique necklace, it hangs multi layered around the neck. A statement piece of jewellery projecting a historical story in a contemporary way.

Malleable at 181 degrees!

 

Using a new two tone acrylic, its takes longer to heat and mould, also tried some leather in the laser cutter, but it burns quite easily. Need to change the size screw holes to fix  easier together.

Dip dying both ends of ovals in different colours, the colours are more intense in the cuts and holes. Difficult to mould two ways in 30 seconds before the media hardens.

Detailed sections in the making

 

With the fly stitch finally in place and rivets all fixed, it was time to join the two halves together. Before I had tested with acrylic glue and  had different results on curved pieces so I wasn’t looking forward to adding any glue to my complete stitched and screwed body.  Decided it was not the way forward the glue as it would be too visible through the body and it is quite uncontrollable.  With a sharpe drill piece and lines marked out drilled the centre hinge. secured it with a 2.5mm nylon screw then cut off ends. repeated again on all hinges twice, although difficult to pick up now then hinges set the right tone and work well if it needs to be opened out to mount for display.

Completed Jerkin – Historical Thread

Completed ahead of time a 3D Jerkin its glass like appearance looking fantastic. Studio photos showing the shadows for a new audience.