Eid Special Wedding Fashion 2014 Jewellery 10

Eid Special Wedding Fashion 2014 Jewellery.

By Aamir Mannan.

A large percentage of Eid's work is hollowware, such as this Convergences teapot, of sterling silver, epoxy, and patina.

4 1/2" x 4 1/2" x 3"

After five years of creating other people's designs, Eid was ready for some changes. There were two big ones in the next four years: sons Andy and Eric. Motherhood and metalsmithing didn't always coexist peacefully, but eventually her home-based jewelry business brought in enough to cover daycare expenses and buy her more time to hammer out her ideas.

When I no longer had daycare bills to pay, I felt as if I had received a grant and could take more chances with my work. I now had more time to create art jewelry. In 1990 my wonderful, generous mother-in-law inadvertently helped me start on a new thread when she commissioned a pin for her future daughter-in-law and instructed me to make something for myself, too. Well! Now I could justify making that time-consuming Celtic-style torque Fred Fenster had shown us. I made one that was 3/4" wide in sterling, and set rhodolite garnet bullets in the finials. It turned out so great I had it gold-plated and still wear this Tortive Neckring on big occasions. I've made about a dozen using a variety of techniques like fold-forming, anticlastic forming, and forging. I find, though, that not everyone is comfortable putting on a neckring, but despite the small buying clientele, I keep returning to it."

A New Twist. By the time Eid's torque with black pearl encrusted ends won the MJSA (Manufacturing Jewelers and Suppliers of America) Award in 1996, she was ready to try something new. As though on cue, she discovered a daring new technique that would give her jewelry a new twist. Jewelry guru Charles Lewton-Brain had a new approach to shaping metal, and he was ready and willing to share it.

Eid Special Wedding Fashion 2014 Jewellery 09

Eid Special Wedding Fashion 2014 Jewellery.

By Aamir Mannan.

A large percentage of Eid's work is hollowware, such as this Convergences teapot, of sterling silver, epoxy, and patina.

4 1/2" x 4 1/2" x 3"

After five years of creating other people's designs, Eid was ready for some changes. There were two big ones in the next four years: sons Andy and Eric. Motherhood and metalsmithing didn't always coexist peacefully, but eventually her home-based jewelry business brought in enough to cover daycare expenses and buy her more time to hammer out her ideas.

Eid Special Wedding Fashion 2014 Jewellery 08

Eid Special Wedding Fashion 2014 Jewellery.

By Aamir Mannan.

"Benchwork taught me to think, design, and work faster," Eid recalls. "I now worked with gold, a material I had used for the first time when I made our wedding rings. [She married her husband, David Reiner, in 1979.] We had to borrow the $200 to buy it. The engagement ring I made five years later. I also learned to polish correctly and efficiently and solder a post onto an earring without the use of a third hand. The next job taught me the basics of mold making and cutting, which led me to my last job at a gold jewelry factory in Boston. I was their designer, production supervisor, and model- and mold-maker. Oh, and expert at making box catches, which were then individually handmade for each bracelet," she laughs.

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.

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 Amethyst Birthstone Wedding Fashion Jewellery Lao.  

By Aamir Mannan 

History of Amethysts and the church

Amethysts have always been associated with ecclesiastical decorations, its frequent use in Episcopal rings giving rise to its description as "the Bishop's Stone," and rosaries consisting of Amethyst beads were much in request in ancient times to attract soothing influences in times of stress and to confer a pious calm on their wearers. In religious art it was regarded as an emblem of resignation to earthly sufferings, patience in sorrow, and trust unto death.

Eid Special Wedding Fashion 2014 Jewellery 06

Eid Special Wedding Fashion 2014 Jewellery.

By Aamir Mannan.

After two years of high school metalworking classes, she was hooked, and by her senior year at the University of Wisconsin she had won her first award. As she headed out to buy a down jacket with her prize money, jewelry professor Eleanor Moty suggested that she invest in a flexible-shaft machine instead. That was 1975.

"And it's still whirring in my studio! But back in school, I was intrigued by fibulas, and the fact that the functional components -- the pin stem and catch -- were all one. That concept is now at the center of all my work. I design in an almost subtractive manner, eliminating anything that seems extraneous and distracting, or that simply doesn't go with the rest of the design."

Turquoise Feroza Stone Girl Fashion Jewellery In Barbados 09

Turquoise Feroza Stone Girl Fashion Jewellery In Barbados.

 By Aamir Mannan    

For at least 2,000 years, Iran, known before as Persia in the West, has remained an important source of turquoise which was named by Iranians initially "pirouzeh" meaning "victory" and later after Arab invasion "firouzeh".[citation needed] In Iranian architecture, the blue turquoise was used to cover the domes of the Iranian palaces because its intense blue colour was also a symbol of heaven on earth.[citation needed]

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 Greenland Stylish Fashion Wedding Bridal Jewellery.  

By Aamir Mannan.

Between the appearances of first decorative objects over 110 thousand years ago to the modern day when fashion changes are more frequent than ever, jewels managed to made countless important connection to the development of our civilization. Here you can find out about those events that shaped our world.

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Tourmaline Birthstone Fashion Wedding Style Jewellery In Haiti.

 By Aamir Mannan

Tourmaline is said to be the stone with the most metaphysical properties.

Tourmaline is believed to strengthen the body and spirit, especially the nervous system, blood, and lymphs. It is also thought to inspire creativity and was used extensively as a talisman by artists and writers.

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Sapphire Wedding Fashion Style Jewellery Cambodia. 

By Aamir Mannan.

In ancient Greece and Rome, kings and queens were convinced that blue sapphires protected their owners from envy and harm. During the Middle Ages, the clergy wore blue sapphires to symbolize Heaven, and ordinary folks thought the gem attracted heavenly blessings. In other times and places, people instilled sapphires with the power to guard chastity, make peace between enemies, influence spirits, and reveal the secrets of oracles.

Eid Special Wedding Fashion 2014 Jewellery 05

Eid Special Wedding Fashion 2014 Jewellery.

By Aamir Mannan.

otion that she could make anything - with the right tools, a few instructions, and a basement studio. From there, 14-year-old Cynthia began by melting paraffin wax and making candles. One day her brother handed her a new type of wax that she easily manipulated into her own designs. An art teacher taught her to transform wax into three sterling silver rings, and faster than you can say "jeweler," Eid bought a torch, saw, pliers, and files.

This was just the fertile ground Eid needed to explore the embedded n

Eid Special Wedding Fashion 2014 Jewellery 04

Eid Special Wedding Fashion 2014 Jewellery.

By Aamir Mannan.

Corrugation adds structural strength to metal, enabling Eid to make her Bee Lines earrings, of 18K bimetal and sterling.

4" x 1/4" x 1/4"

Metalsmiths are formed, not made. Eid was born in Madison , Wisconsin, into a family that encouraged wonder and nurtured creativity. She grew up in the house her parents built, sat on furniture her father and grandfather constructed, and was surrounded by walls jammed with family art and her mother's woven wall hangings.

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  Lapis Lazuli Birthstone Wedding Fashion 2014 Jewellery In Bahrain.

 By Aamir Mannan

Lapis lazuli is commercially synthesized or simulated by the Gilson process, which is used to make artificial ultramarine and hydrous zinc phosphates.[14] It may also be substituted by spinel or sodalite, or by dyed jasper or howlite.

Lapis takes an excellent polish and can be made into jewelry, carvings, boxes, mosaics, ornaments, and vases. It was also ground and processed to make the pigment ultramarine, widely used during the Renaissance in frescoes and oil painting. Its usage as a pigment in oil paint largely ended in the early 19th century when a chemically identical synthetic variety became available.

Eid Special Wedding Fashion 2014 Jewellery 03

Eid Special Wedding Fashion 2014 Jewellery.

By Aamir Mannan.

"Shifts in scale can be difficult, but I like thinking and using different parts of my body differently and allowing the ideas to flow from jewelry to hollowware and back. Being a jeweler brings detail to the hollowware, and loving to hammer and form metal brings excitement and three-dimensionality to the jewelry. But whether metal is corrugated, fold-formed, or hammered, my goal is metalwork that looks fluid and natural, inviting closer inspection. I hope that only then will the viewer wonder about the technique."

Eid Special Wedding Fashion 2014 Jewellery 02

Eid Special Wedding Fashion 2014 Jewellery.

By Aamir Mannan.

Eid makes such intriguing forms as her Polka Dot bracelet, of sterling silver with patination, with the aid of "Thor," her 50-ton hydraulic press.

2" x 3" x 1".

"I often feel like I am ,conversing with the metal," Eid says. "It tells me what it would like to do, what is difficult, and what it absolutely refuses to do. My designs emerge from these dialogs that ask 'What if I...?' Taking those forks in the road gets the juices flowing and it gets really fun in the studio." Eid's idea of "fun" is corrugating a sheet of metal, then using "Thor," the 50-ton hydraulic press she named after the Norse thunder god, to squeeze out the Polka Dots bracelet or Convergences teapot. "Fun" is hammering out a yard-high copper eternal light for a synagogue and setting a one-carat diamond into a forged gold ring.

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 Greece Stylish Fashion Wedding Bridal Jewellery. 

By Aamir Mannan.

designs and fashion trends changed dramatically. During those times world saw the appearance and disappearance of many styles, some new and original and some based on older designs found in the ruins of long gone civilizations (mostly Egyptian, which became one of the inspirations of Romanticism and Art Deco).

After more than 100.000 years of use of decorative items, and more than 6 thousand years of metallurgy and gem processing, we can surely say that jewels will forever remain integral part of humanity and our entire civilization.