Eid Special Wedding Fashion 2014 Jewellery 07

Eid Special Wedding Fashion 2014 Jewellery.

By Aamir Mannan.

Tortive bracelet, of 18K gold/sterling bimetal and black onyx.

2" x 3"x 1/2".

Forging a New Path. Eid was strictly a jeweler -- until she met Fred Fenster in her third semester. He taught her to forge, raise, and think large. Working on hollowware was exciting and so too was the larger and less conservative jewelry she was now creating.

Shortly before graduating in 1980 with an MFA in jewelry design and metalsmithing from Indiana University , Eid headed for a Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) conference in Tucson. Sharing a cab to the airport with a stranger was a lucky accident that resulted in a job. The stranger was groundbreaking jeweler Bruce Metcalf, the job was with a goldsmith in Boston . The job taught her a thing or two she'd missed in school.