draped hair accessory

Ive decided to make the elements by hand, reason being, I made a mould which doesnt inject so well, its costing a lot of time. And after casting, cutting the elements off the tree and cleaning them will be such a mission,I  prefer making them by hand, I find it quite de-stressing.

As I use my pliers to bend these into shapes,it becomes like a recipe in my mind,I know exactly how much to bend them so that they ,sort off look the same

forging them changes their shape,they now look like mehndi squeesed out of a bottle amd using the tip of the bottle to press in down so that it touches the skin and creates the marks of the bottle.

the little balls that are solderd onto the jumprings that will then be soldered onto the forged 's' shaped wires.

mehndi patterns with bitumen test pieces

I used a ink bottle with nozzle to create mehndi patterns on copper plates.The reason for doing this, is so that im able to etch these plates and see if this process of applying other materials sutible for etching in the same way mehndi is applied to skin.

I mixed bitumen with a few drops of thinners just to make it the sort off consistancy of mehndi.

it creates the pattern beautifully however the bitumen pattern begins to spread out after a few seconds

on paper it also works nicely.it doesnt spread on the paper but on the metal it does

mothers day

I need to make gifts for mothers day,for 3 grannies. Im making copper bangles which I know all 3 of them would wear as opposed to any other jewellery.It can be used to ease artritis pain because its made out ouf copper.

im gonna pierce out mehndi patterns that I found in a book (Roome 1998:121)

Il solder copper wire all around the cuff so that it will be wearable.

draped head accessory

This is a piece I was asked to make for a mehndi night,there are two versions I want to make. One will be made with beads and diamantes as per the bride and the other I will make that has more detail including mehndi patterns.

 This prototype was made with wool and held together by tape,perose of this was to get an idea of how much beads will be needed to round up quotation.

 I bought plastic combs and cast them and cleaned them.

initial blog post

Start to the 2nd year of btech . My intensions are to focus on my theme which is to make jewellery based on mehndi patterns. I plan to brainstorm ideas in terms of design process,allowing myself to freely design and paint patterns in the comparison to mehndi application ,to fill spaces as you go along. It is a free-style process by this I mean that patterns can not be copied exactly like the way you see them, just like handwriting everyones handwriting is different, so is drawing and application of mehndi patterns .It will look different from the reference that I would start working from and thats what makes mehndi unique and beautiful.