Continuing from Last week’s intro on Abhushan, this week I would like to put forward a couple of my Abhushan recycled jewelry that I made. Considering that our theme was Recycle and Reinvention (sounds like my personal motto right;), all these designs use bits and pieces of things lying around.
Sunflower Sieve
Materials: Mixed Media – brass sheet, fabric, leather cord, metal ball chain, wooden and acrylic beads and findings
The cord is made of a leather cord and a metal chain twisted together and wrapped with wire at the ends to make a clasp. The sieve is a leftover brass piece that was cut to a rounded rectangle and drilled with random multiple holes. I then strung some beads to copper wire and secured them on the plate with the help of the holes. I then twisted the copper hooks around the jump rings on the cord to make a bail. The sunflower is a piece of fabric rosette I made sometime back. It was big and gold and didn’t fit into anything else and it travelled with me all the way to Delhi, to fit in beautifully with this piece as though it was destined to be that way. The piece is further embellished by earring button stoppers and some findings.
Drops of Fire Necklace
Materials: Mixed Media – wooden Lacquer beads, coconut beads, metal chains, toothpick and wire & clasps
Abhushan Recycled jewelry – Concept Description
Ahmed Uncle & Abida Aunty, who are Lacquer artisans from Chenapatinam when describing their process said something that captured my heart -“These soft round beads shining with colour are nothing but drops of fire that burn our hands” It was so heart wrenching and got me thinking and thus was born this design.
As a designer I feel that for a design to be effective the concept of the piece should be effective not just in the thought level but should be seen visually. So I thought what better way than to do a charm necklace with wire wrapped lac beads in fiery colours (red, orange, burnt sienna and ocher)
The disc beads are coconut, the center one is a wire wrapped tooth pick charm (inspired by the poison prickers of Black & white cinema) and the others are lacquer beads wrapped with wire – each in their own way.
Because these pictures were taken in a hurry during the workshop I know that they really don’t do enough justice to how the pieces really looked when worn.
BTW Here is the list of materials that were used to make the items in last weeks post:
Jute strips, handbag handle, cut plastic pearls, plastic sticker, metal ball, silver colored pollens and aluminum ring, two pin plug, beads, daisy spacers and hooks/clasps. So did you get all of them right?
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