Theresa Burger

A couple newish pieces I managed to take quick photos of…

Silver Resin and gold leaf ring.

Silver Resin and gold leaf ring.

Quartz pierced out silver earrings

Cultured Pearl Brooch

Finally its begun and my 1st piece is some what done… for now, I am deciding on possible changes but for now it remains like this. What it is is a pendant, the frame hollow constructed out of sterling silver and then set clear resin inside holding gold leaf.

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While doing research for my Btech, I have stumbled upon more amazingly cool jewellers and wanted to share some of my finds…

Here we go …

Cristian Dorigatti

Cristian Dorigatti

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When starting to design my collection to accompany my BTech research report, it seemed the only logical step was to do it on my family. Basically at the end of every year we put together an exhibition of our years work and display our manufactured pieces, generally students work to theme … i guess it makes things easier, some students even base their Btech on the pieces they made. It paints   picture if everything is coherent and connected…so I am designing my pieces around my family tree you could say.

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My final year of 4th begun this week, part of the course is to document all our process…designing and writing of our research report. My report centers around jewellery objects, specifically the ‘jewellery heirloom’

Are heirloom jewels important to us, if they are,what makes them so important…

Its this importance that sparked my interest in this subject, I decided that it would be a good start to my research report for my Btech. (more…)