Tag: jewellery

Designing silver jewellery in Hoi An

Designing silver jewellery in Hoi An

When I travel I am constantly picking up bits and pieces of ephemera all the little bits no-one else wants. This could be receipts, scraps of paper or fabric, packaging, left over money or bits of plants to press anything that evokes that place for …

How to make pearls in three easy steps…

How to make pearls in three easy steps…

So I had a quick lesson in pearl cultivating. Seems quite straight forward really. Take an live oyster, prise it open insert a bit from another oyster and a plastic ball…leave for five years back in the sea and hey presto a pearl. How hard …