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Im exploring aspects of mehndi,designs,techniques,significance,function and historical background. I incorporate patterns that are either modern and traditional,Indian or Arabic into contemporary jewellery.





18 April 2012

Still making application tools



 I have been making tools.I need a tool that will allow me to apply wax onto a surface using the same application technique that is used to apply mehndi.

So far ive made my own plastic piping bags and tried melting it by placing it into a basin of boiling water.Water began seeping into the bag and mixing with the melted wax.When the wax is in its liquid state it just spills out of the cone. In order to draw using the cone the wax needs to slightly cool.By this stage the wax begins to cool very quickly so its hard to have even a quick pattern done.

the syringe with and without the needle worked in the same way the cone works.The wax needs to slightly cool from its liquid state but to maintain that temperiture is impossible with these tools.


 I used a tea jug to melt the wax on the stove and pour into the bottle that i made with a nozzle.I tried melting the wax in the bottle in a microwave,this did not work,the wax took way to long to start melting as opposed to a stove,and couldnt see properly at what was happening through the microwave screen.

I havnt yet found a tool that works successfully in applying wax.I feel as though this is holding me back from making jewellery. I need to start making jewellery. Im going to find another technique of making mehndi jewellery so that I dont spend the year just trying to create a tool and then not knowing what to do with it.

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