Metal! Working!

[luluslittlelife]

Tis still ring season! Filling orders for September weddings, get in touch! 👌🏽✨

[ericabellojewelry-deactivated20]

This wavey dude is about to have some friends… #thisisabrooch#design#craft#minimalism

[lithicdesign-deactivated2021041]

I’m taking my time on this project to make sure everything is perfect, but I really like how the roughed-out components look! #wip #onthebench #metalsmith #artnouveau

[emilymulhall]

[art-of-swords-deactivated201705]

Jade hilted Kard Dagger

Dated: 18th century

Culture: Persian

Measurements: overall length 31.7 cm

The dagger has a straight, single-edged blade, the base being finely pierced with floral motifs and framed with silver bands. The golden bands under the back feature a thin raiser and golden inscriptions in Arabic. The jade grip has two rubies and a white sphere, while the iron ring-nut has remains of gilding.

Source: Copyright © 2016 Czerny’s International Auction House S.R.L.

[alketo]

Magnhild Kennedy. Masks. 

[11-9n]

humalien said: the sound in this room is so strange…

[sterwood]

[Strange metal clinks, like the sound of metal being hit by a hammer, or being hit with other pieces of metal in general, accompany each footstep, along with the general sound of metal rubbing over other pieces of metal. The room’s acoustics make it all sound hollow though, like a far off echo.]

[chertbryut]

Okay so for anyone who doesn’t know what this room is, this is the Memory Void, and it’s in the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany. This installation is actually something you’re SUPPOSED to walk on. That’s half the point of the installation. Each metal face is meant to represent the faces and voices that were silenced by the atrocities of the concentration camps in World War 2. Stepping on them and making them sound out is meant to give the voiceless a voice, to force us to remember them.

I’ve walked on this, it’s an eerie experience.

[alketo]

Rings by Nicole Schuster 

[alketo]

YunSun Jang - I See a Halo Around You

[alketo]

HEATHER ROBLIN

[alketo]

Io, by  Katerina Reichova. 

[blackbackedjackal]

Metalsmithing II final - dragon claw ring.

About 20 hours went into this piece. 10 of them spent carving the ring out of jeweler’s wax. It was casted in bronze, then filed down, sanded, all pits were refilled with bronze and soldered, re-filed and sanded, and the gaps were filled with intaglio ink to give it a nice contrast. I’m super happy with the piece, and I found out I LOVE wax carving/metal casting. Deffo plan on taking it again when it’s offered.

[thegreenwolf]

Paper Life – The artist Rogan Brown cuts thousands of microorganisms in paper

The paper art creations of the American artist Rogan Brown who designs then cuts by hand or laser thousands of paper microorganisms, including tree moss, cell structures, bacteria, coral, diatoms, and radiolaria. With his creations, the artist questions our relationship with these microorganisms, but also uses them as a symbol to illustrate life, natural architectures or the relationships between all living things in nature. (Source, please do not delete!)

[bitterhoneymetals]

They aren’t quite done yet, but I’m pretty stoked on these vessel earrings #metalsmithing #silver #notsosecretsanta #bitterhoneymetals

[helliongallery]

Old school metalsmith work from back in the day by #talltreesofportland artist @overcastpdx. Reliquary and salt & pepper shaker. My wife makes good stuff. #overcastpdx #portland #metalsmith #reliquary

[bribroderick-blog]

Brass bracelet inspired by fungal forms  November 2013

[lukeivyprice]

Hammer earrings. Silver, ebony, padauk

Metalsmiths love their hammers.  For safety reasons, I rarely wear rings or necklaces.  If I put any jewelry on before leaving the house, it’s usually an earring.  In a rural area, it’s not uncommon for people (normally old men) to make a snide remark (usually a slur about my presumed sexuality.)  After the last time that happened, I set out to make the toughest earrings that I could.  Initially I made an axe which played well with customers at my sawmill.  “Is that a f#cking axe?  That’s pretty bad@ss… for an earring I mean.”  So I decided to make a little chassing hammer and forging hammer.  I also started making little stands to hold each one (an anvil for the forging hammer, a pitch bowl for the chassing hammer, and a chopping block for the axe.)  Who knows when I’ll get around to finishing those up though

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