Bridal head piece

The head jewel should be the focal point however it must not over-power the face of the bride, in other words I dont want to make it too big or too small because it will get lost with the brides image.If a hindu bride is going to wear it, it must sit over the forehead but just above the tikka/bindhi (forehead decoration dots). If a western bride uses it,she can wear it lower.Therefore it must be adjustable,musnt move easily,must be held in place by some sort of chain that will hook onto hair,or if the bride is wearing a tiara ,it can be hooked to the tiara. Im thinking of using 3 to 5 strands of chain to hook to the hair so its weight is balanced.
The focal point must be contemporary,maybe a flower,maybe including a gemstone or stone settings.

I have a stone that is shaped like a snow flake. I would like to incorporate it in my head piece,however it is not the colour I would of liked to use. It is crystal clear with irridecense.I would like to incorporate the use of colour,maybe red with a mixture of other tones if I happen to use it.

green exhibition

I had problems attaching my cast elements onto the inner sleeve.I tried firstly by sweat soldering the pieces onto each other,however that failed because the cast elements when heated,had a nature of pulling away from the metal it was lying onto so I thought if I rivet certain areas and then solder it would still keep the pieces together so they do not pull apart.I wasn't successful yet again,the solder was only running on the inner sleeve and the branches were melting.

I bent up my bangle thinking maybe if I forged the branches according to the curve of the bangle then it would be easy to push down the branches using my fingers then solder.As I was hammering the elements and inner sleeve into a cuff I noticed that the elements were embedding themselves into the metal and then I thought i would be a better idea to fuse them together so that they no longer look like they placed one on-top of the other but that they look like they belong together.

 

I blackened the metal and glass brushed the bangle so that the blackened areas are in certain places.and used a burnishing sort of tool to remove the edges of the bangle so that it isn't sharp and painful to put on the arm.