Reproductions... Amazing!

I wanted to try my hand at reproducing early jewelry pieces, like form the pre Colombian era, and pre Classic eras. Those hard to find ornately decorated and expertly crafted pieces of wearable art.

I purchased a book by Daniel and Serga Nadler, Silver, from fetish to fashion. It is a book about their travels and their found love for Ethnic Jewelry, together they fell in love with each other and jewelry collecting. With their bond and love for one another they have amassed a huge collection of primer, gallery quality, pieces of Silver masterpieces.

Their collection has inspired me so much that I want to now recreate them, but in polymer clay and metals, and try my best to make them look close to the actual pieces. I have always been one to challenge myself, and this will be a challenge, as these are the finest pieces of jewelry I have seen, and they are actual pieces form their origination. They would travel to India, Pakistan, S.E, Asia, just every where, and would deal with tribes people and collectors to get the very best pieces they could find from all over the world.
This is my first try at creating with this book as inspiration... what do you think, i can use some feedback, really I could. Please feel free to comment... Thank you so much.

Silver from Fetish to Fashion! Index, Author's Note

I originally wanted to share this entire book with you all, it serves as visual inspiration and has sparked off so many different design choices and looks for me. With inspiration from original pieces of tribal and ethnic jewelry brings my mind to wonder and almost day dream of these fantastic Artisans working out their concepts design choices and components, that were usually native to their environment creating an original look from their surrounding found and crafted objects. 

However the process of scanning the pages is daunting and just hard to say the least. But there is such amazing amount of visual inspiration, that I am all giddy about sharing it, for those of you who can be inspired as I am by visual stimulation... and this is top notch visual stimulation. 

So I need some encouraging words from you, if you are interested in seeing and being inspired by these works of art then please say so. Let me know that this is something I need to share with all of you, and you would come back to read it to be inspired as i have been. This will encourage me to continue scanning each page... one by one, if I know that others are benefiting from this it will inspire me to share more and not simply forget about it! 

So come on let me know, I will however clean up the scanned pic's and make them as presentable as possible, as not to distort the pic's and text. I also will leave the files really large so you can click to enlarge and read. All this takes so much of my time, but if I do it as I am creating it becomes less of a taks and become more of an inspiration boost! Yea or Nea, either way leave me a comment and subscribe, if you don't want to miss a page!

 

 

  

Sophia Lauren models an Elsa Perretti, Cuff bracelet. 

Silver from Fetish to Fashion!

 Cover Photograph by Chance ye

Cover design by Orit Mardkha

Silver... From Fetish to Fashion, Danile & Serga Nadler

This is an amazing book! It was incredibly expensive but I had to have it, I call it a splurge kind of like rewarding myself for being productive. I also thought I could "right it off" so in my head it was a done deal!
But when I opened up and started to read and see the gorgeous photographs of authentic pieces from each region covered is just invaluable, so my investment has already paid off.

I feel that this book has so much to offer, and so much visual inspiration that it would be ashamed if I kept it to myself. So I am thinking of featuring this book on my blog as a way of sharing the inspiration of these authentic intricate, ethnic and some what Tribal looking Masterpieces! I will start to feature this book for all to see and be inspired by, but I need you artists and craft enthusiasts to comment, and let me know you are interested, otherwise I will not go through the trouble of scanning each page for naught! Below is the inside of the jacket, read it and let me know if you want to be inspired!???

If you want to be inspired COMMENT! =) 

Click pic  to read!