| CONTEMPORIZING
TRADITIONAL JEWELRY:
The Etruscan Butterfly Bracelet
KIT CONTENTS
JD5-01
INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED LEVEL
-- Jewelry Design Sequence
-- Lesson: Contemporizing Traditional Jewelry; Design
Elements
-- Bracelet
In
this project, I wanted to create a mixed technique
and components-based bracelet, with some feel of
dimensionality, something both elegant and casual,
and something that combined bead weaving with wire
working techniques.
It
was important that the piece look more contemporary,
than traditional. This meant breaking the typical
“line” associated with most bracelets
and necklaces, varying colors and patterns from
component to component, adding some dimensionality,
and mixing techniques.
| LEARNING
OBJECTIVES |
CONTEMPORIZING
TRADITIONAL JEWELRY:
The Etruscan Butterfly Bracelet |
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BEGINNER |
INTERMEDIATE |
ADVANCED |
| TECHNICAL
MECHANICS |
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Managing Thread Tension |
BEGINNER |
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Holding Your Piece To Work It |
BEGINNER |
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Reading Simple Pattern, Figure and/or Graph |
BEGINNER |
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Selecting Materials |
BEGINNER |
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5.
Identifying Areas of Potential Weakness, and
Strategies for Dealing With These |
BEGINNER |
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Determining Measurements, including Width and
Length of a Piece, Especially In Relationship
To Bead Sizes |
BEGINNER |
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Finishing Off Threads in Piece or Adding Threads |
BEGINNER |
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Using tools to shape and form wire and wire
components |
BEGINNER |
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| UNDERSTANDING
CRAFT BASIS OF STITCH |
| 1.
Starting the Stitch |
BEGINNER |
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Implementing the Basic Stitch |
BEGINNER |
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Finishing Off Your Piece With A Clasp Assembly |
BEGINNER |
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Creating Simple Surface Embellishment |
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Increasing and Decreasing |
BEGINNER |
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Working Stitch in Tubular Form |
BEGINNER |
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Working Stitch To Create Open (Negative Spaces),
and Split Forms |
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Elaborately Embellishing the Stitch, including
Fringes, Edge Treatments, Straps and Connectors |
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Working Stitch in Circular Form |
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Working Stitch in 3-Dimensions |
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Manipulating hard wire to make shapes |
BEGINNER |
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| 12.
Manipulating hard wire to make structural supports
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BEGINNER |
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| UNDERSTANDING
ART & DESIGN BASIS OF STITCH |
1.
Learning Implications When Choosing Different
Sizes/Shapes of Beads, or Using Different
Stringing Materials |
BEGINNER |
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2.
Understanding Relationship of this Stitch
or Technique in Comparision to Other Types
of Bead Weaving Stitches or other Techniques |
BEGINNER |
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3.
Understanding How Bead Asserts Its Need For
Color, Using These Techniques |
BEGINNER |
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Understanding Design Elements and strategies
for their maniipulation |
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INTERMEDIATE |
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5.
Creating Your Own Design with This Stitch,
in Reference to Jewelry Design Principles
of Composition |
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INTERMEDIATE |
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6.
Building "support systems" within
a piece of jewelry |
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7.
Creating Shapes, Components and Forms with
This Stitch, and Establishing Themes |
BEGINNER |
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8.
Adding dimensionality and movement |
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| BECOMING
JEWELRY DESIGN ARTIST |
| 1.
Managing Materials, Colors, Components and Forms,
from selection to arrangements to transitions
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BEGINNER |
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Contemporizing Traditional Jewelry |
BEGINNER |
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Revitalizing Vintage Jewelry |
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Managing Mixed Media Projects |
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Developing A Personal Style |
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Valuing or Pricing Your Work |
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Teaching Others The Stitch or Technique |
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CONTEMPORIZING
TRADITIONAL JEWELRY:
The Etuscan Butterfly Bracelet
Instructor:
Warren Feld
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Goals:
- Introducing some information about Etruscan Jewelry
- Discussing "Design" -- what is it, what
is its process
- Understanding the kinds of Design Elements which
the design artist manipulates when creating jewelry
- Understanding the differences between Traditional
Jewelry and Contemporary Jewelry
- Translating how Design Elements will get implemented,
given contemporary criteria
- Working with bead woven and wire worked components
in terms of design, application, arrangements, transitions
- Beginner level basics and variations using brick
stitch, tubular peyote stitch, and wire working,
to create some components
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Prerequisites:
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Orientation To Beads & Jewelry Findings
- Introductory Knowledge of Brick and Peyote Stitches
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An intermediate level knowledge of and experience
with bead weaving
- A comfort level using chain nose pliers, round
nose pliers, and flush cutters with hard wire
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