beaded bangles and waist belt for deities

made slinky bangles so they are adjustable,just wraps around the arm,you dont sqeeze your hands through.

the belt was made using ribbon,beads and sequins.the ribbon will just be tied around the deities waist.

beaded foot jewelly for deities

These were found fromsearch engine google ,searching for keywords "beaded foot jewellery" and these beautiful pieces came up.

I was given odd colour schemes to work with so i tried not mixing bead colours together.

the colours were cerisse,light blue,light pink,lilac,silver and black.

i got some beautifiul beads from everlasting in west street durban. theres a wide range to choose from and they are quite affordable.

these were the beaded foot jewelley i made using the given colour schemes.

sri sri radhanath temple of understanding

outside of the temple

                                                                  inside of the temple

this is the iskcon(international society of krishna consciousness) temple in chatsworth. The next activity is to make jewellery for the Radha Krishna deities in the temple.

Krishna janmashtami is celebrated to commemorate the birthday of Lord Krishna.this date is the 9th of August 2012.

I want to make and sponsor some jewellery for the deities.first i needed to know what they looked like in terms of scale. I was told by a lady at the temple radhanath that the deities are the standard size of us.which mean the jewellery will sort off be the normall human sizes but adustale in such a way so that it can be easily put onto the statue and taken off.

especially bangles the correct wrist size of the deities probably wont go over the palm and knukles so the need to be adjustables.

i looked for pictures of deities to see what sort of jewellery do they use.

 looking at these pictures most of the jewellery is beaded so im gonna search for ideas on beaded jewellery.

baby bracelets

treaded swarovskis onto thin chain that i pulled through the wire drawplate to make thinner.

anglo gold prototypes - florence

mendhi inspired necklace

I arranged the wax elements to see how they will be put together.I modified the elements whilst in its wax form because its alot easier to work with as opposed to casting and piercing them in silver.

These are my elements after casting and cleaning.I soldered three jumprings on each element so that I could string the elements along with swarovski crystals.

I had some trouble attaching the beads with the elements.I re-thread them like four times because the elements were leaning forward so I played around with the number and placement of beads until it set the way I wanted it to set.

Looking at the overall finish of the piece I realise that I could of made my own silver dangle beads instead of buying them,so that it lends itself to the piece.

The catch works quite well with the piece.I used the mendhi elements to create the catch so that the back of the necklace is just as interesting as the front.

Forehead tiara

My aim was to create a head piece that I would use on my wedding day. Im looking at all the many different styles of tiaras that can be worn over the hair to represent a Sirbhandi. The sirbhandi is worn on the middle part of the hair with a dangle bit that sits on the forehead. The reason I dont want to wear a sirbhandi is because during the Hindu wedding ceremony the groom puts a red powder called sindur on her hair path so this is a symbol of her marriage. The sirbhandi needs to be lifted and needs to be placed back before and after the application. This is time consuming knowing that hindu marriages are known to be 3 hours long.So I would love to have a forehead tiara that would serve the same beauty of a sirbhandi but would allow my hair path with sindur be visible,its a sybol of marriage so I dont want to hide it behind a sirbhandi. I want it to have a fantasy look,eastern and western fusion.

I designed and sketched ideas and thoughts whilst solving problems like catch solutions.I used my references which were pictures of tiaras from Alien Bears blog(group of designers that fuse eastern and western jewellery)to help me solve some problems e.g their form,how are they placed on the head and how is it attached.

I began interperating my designs into metal,I began by melting my metal and rolling it into a bar that I Forged into the intial frame of the tiara.I forged square wire into creating swirls that looked decorative,complemented the piece and gave it a fantasy look.

I found pictures of 2 different flowers that complemented my piece.I pierced these flowers out of thin silver plate(0.5mm) filed and sanded them so that they no longer had sharp edges.I also added granulation to the flowers before I could solder all my elements together.

After sanding and polishing the tiara I draped threads of swarovski crytals along with the flowers.I feel as though Ive achieved what I set out to do,although my finished piece does look different as opposed to my initail design,reason being my finish piece was actually started off as being my prototype so I changed certain elements as I went along.

My finish piece however after the jewellery crit I feel I need to add some sort of colour so to let the metal stand out,maybe different colour beads. 

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