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| [859] Charles Loloma - Hopi Modernist |
Master jeweler Charles Loloma was a Hopi spiritual leader -- a member of the Badger Clan and a Hopi snake priest. His powers of charm extended through his ritual life and into his compelling jewelry. In daily life, Loloma never talked about Hopi religion. But his jewelry limns the Hopi landscape and expresses a world of spirit. Shaped by gems and woods cut into miniature topographies, the jewelry contours geology and time. It proposes intervals in which what is just now visible might shift with a slant of light or a flick of the wrist into the ineffable. Lustrous, flat surfaces abut plugs of jagged stone. Iconography rooted in Hopi imagery intersects with motifs from ancient Egypt. Color and decoration revel on the body like brilliant plumage.... (2006)
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| Show me more articles from: [Metalsmith Magazine]|[Ellen Berkovitch] |
| Releated Categories: [Features]|[Behind The Design] |
| ISBN: B00006KNMM |
| [616] Chinese Freshwater Pearls - Fresh Possibilities |
When Chinese freshwater pearls began flooding the market several years ago, craft artists took notice. It is not that pearls were new to them. Studio jewelers had been incorporating pearls into their designs for decades, long before the current wave of Chinese freshwater pearls reached these shores. But the growing availability of Chinese freshwater pearls has allowed artists to indulge their passion for pearls as they never could before.... (2004)
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| Show me more articles from: [Colored Stone]|[Suzanne Wade] |
| Releated Categories: [Behind The Design]|[Pearls] |
| ISBN: B000060MIL |
| [281] Close Knit - Michael David Sturlin crochets with gold |
This crocheted necklace is created by weaving interlocking loops of 18k gold wire into a chain, using a needle. Because the chain is built loop by loop, it is a time consuming process: It can take up to three hours to crochet one inch..... (2003)
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| Show me more articles from: [AJM]|[Suzanne Wade] |
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| ISBN: B00006K39S |
| [902] Collaboration With Gemstone Cutter Takes Tom Dailing to New Heights |
om Dailing works in metal and Richard Homer in stone, but otherwise they are very much in sync. Dailings jewelry designs win prestigious awards. So do Homers cut gemstones. Both have a passion for exploration and innovation. Both love to spend hours pondering their next creative direction-preferably to somewhere no one has been..... (2009)
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| Show me more articles from: [AJM]|[Gerry Davies] |
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| ISBN: B00006K39S |
| [923] Color Stories Designing Around a Dynamic Opal |
´I show you an opal. You show me a design.´ That was the deal I struck with the three willing designers whose imaginative jewelry pieces you´ll see on the following pages. Once they accepted the challenge to design around this fabulous opal from DuftyWeis Opals Inc. in Maysville, Kentucky, there was no turning back..... (2008)
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| Show me more articles from: [AJM]|[Tina Wojtkielo] |
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| ISBN: B00006K39S |
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