[Jewelry making - Article 00064] - Re: [Orchid] Non-traditional, non-precious materials

[Brian Corll]

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>     There is this myth among people who make jewelry that everything
>     that's not precious stones and metal is not worth undertaking. I,
>     myself, feel completely the opposite. 

    I was just telling someone the other day that one of the things I
    wish I had some of the multi-colored iron slag I used to find around
    the old 19th-century iron forges. It came in shades of blues and
    greens and was striped like agate. I don't think anyone ever made
    jewelry out of it. Cut into cabochons, it would have been wonderful.
    I still find small pieces from time to time, but nothing like I used
    to get. At one time they paved the mountain trails here in
    Pennsylvania with the stuff. I had buckets full of it. Of course, my
    mother tossed it all out along with my 1950's baseball cards, and the
    1956 Sun label 45's by Elvis. Thanks, Mom ! 

Brian Corll
Vassar Jewelers
1002 East Simpson Street
Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
Tel.: (717) 691-0286
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