Hammer & Hand is a metal & jewellery collective based in Hobart, Tasmania and Bangalow, New South Wales.
January 29, 2011
Posted by Jen Banks
Can I have one exactly the same as that….but different?
What a thrill it is to be asked to make a specific piece for someone! And how scary!!! I cant think of a higher compliment to be paid than to have someone entrust me to bring their jewellery dreams into reality….but, god, its soooo nerve wracking – the pressure I put on myself to make it perfectly and to ensure that what they see in their minds eye is what they get (or to make something just as fabulous if a piece just isnt possible as originally planned).
Commissioned pieces always take a long time – the planning, the drafts, the re-planning, the re-drafting, the learning of new skills (which I love), the improving of techniques already learned and perhaps the creating of something I would never have thought to do on my own – its always a huge learning curve, and such a buzz!
Below I have grouped together some of the pieces I have been commissioned to make.
- Wedding Bands – 3 layers – inner silver band, upcycled aluminium middle layer, outer pierced silver layer
- To go with a previously purchesed pendant that was made by me
- I made these earrings as mini versions of the pendant – the client loved and purchased both pairs :o)
- Wedding band for a lovely friend
- Client liked my ‘bird on a wire’ pendant, but loved crows
- Client had had this beautiful opal for a long time, but didnt know what to do with it until she saw my landscape pendants
- My mother-in-law had a ginko pendant and wanted matching earrings
- This lady commissioned several of the amber-resin rings for friends, and asked me to make her some matching earrings
- My lovely friend Ness wanted a pendant to match her dress for a special evening. I used the pettern of the fabic as inspiration for its design
- This charm necklace was inspired by the four-heart one I wear (a heart for each member of my family)
- very cute and teeny-tiny pendant (was tricky to cut out!)
- very cute and teeny-tiny pendant
- rough draft piece of more complex wedding bands (this design itself is popular which is lovely)
- my first knuckle duster – ‘make it rough looking’ was the brief
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