Blogroll and jeweller to the lost - commisions and malcolm enright bespoke, blogging, fashion, gem stones and high carat metal, Ring Design, the good things 7:21 pm
We have sourced and had cut this Table Cut gem Cubic Zirconia in the same way as a 17th Century diamond cutter would have done it, leaving the round edges unpolished. Cleaving a macle to allow a view into the gem, then simply polishing the existing sides of an octagonal crystal.
Blogroll and jeweller to the lost - commisions and malcolm enright bespoke, blogging, Earring Design, gem stones and high carat metal, the good things 7:15 pm
barbara heath and Blogroll and jeweller to the lost - commisions and malcolm enright Australian gardens, bespoke, blogging, collections, fashion, gem stones and high carat metal, Ring Design, silver, the good things 12:43 pm
One of Barbara’s earliest sets of stacked interlocking rings was purchased at a Cintra House exhibition by Glenn Cooke, who was the decorative arts curator at the Queensland Art Gallery. ‘Cook-e’ has been a friend and supporter of us both and also we share many interests, Australiana: furniture and gold & silversmithing, chip art, tea towel art, matchstick art and found ephemera plus we are all members of the Australian Garden History Society. His third commission is featured today.
barbara heath and Blogroll and jeweller to the lost - commisions and malcolm enright bespoke, blogging, fashion, gem stones and high carat metal, Necklace Design, recycling, silver, the good things 12:07 pm
Barbara’s job bag description - © Bh Necklace Commission (No 1 Punk Necklet): make constructed frames and links for 5 objects: Gael’s tortoiseshell x 2, Victorian bog oak hand, Chinese Brown Jade and Cornish stone pendant and link all to matt onyx flat round beads. 925 Silver. Handmade strap curb link chain 925 Silver. 2 x bar and ring clasps to necklace + chain extend further use to series. All having matt/polished/oxidised/bright finish.
barbara heath and Blogroll and jeweller to the lost - commisions and malcolm enright bespoke, blogging, collections, Earring Design, fashion, gem stones and high carat metal, the good things 11:45 am
© Bh Commission – Caroline Cotton using x4 princess cut Diamonds (supplied) one each at centre and base of hook 9ct Palladium White Gold. Juan-Luis took an iPhone pic with a x20 power lupé to the lens - here is how small the handwork is . . . look at the saw blade.
barbara heath and Blogroll and jeweller to the lost - commisions and malcolm enright bespoke, blogging, collections, fashion, gem stones and high carat metal, Necklace Design, recycling, the good things 11:38 am
This a gem detail of a divine © Bh Necklace Commission for very old friends and client’s of both mal E and Bh: Celestine Doyle – Mothe’s Beads with new clasp and leaf button detail. Double strand of antique graduated Bone beads are connected with button detail and clasp to each side; Five Leaf Button set with central 3mm square orange BET Sapphire (0.27ct) and surrounding 5x3mm round Pink-Orange Sapphires (5=0.92ct) sits opposite a matching Leaf Bar & Ring clasp set with 3mm square orange BET Sapphire (0.27ct). 18ct yellow gold with matt and burnished finish.
Blogroll and jeweller to the lost - commisions and malcolm enright bespoke, blogging, collections, gem stones and high carat metal, Ring Design, silver, the good things 4:33 pm
Brisbane fashion maven, astute jewellery collector, client and friend: Patricia Crowley with a test run of a ring we collaborated on ages ago. So great to post a shot of Tricia taken in the studio with her clunker of a whisky quartz . . .
Blogroll and jeweller to the lost - commisions and malcolm enright bespoke, blogging, gem stones and high carat metal, Ring Design, the good things 11:12 am
I can’t name names yet but this is the fifth commission for this young career woman who as Barbara says “really gets it “. . . by that we mean the use of noble metal, superlative gems and fine detailed workmanship for a ring to last a lifetime. This person has trawled this blog site for just about every post concerning gems and ring designs from our past. I find that there are still so many outcomes that we haven’t posted and the first post about this commission was found and discussed at length. Here I’ll attach x4 different shots of this one-off leaf lattice ring using all of Sonia Higg’s diamonds with a domed chunky pavé setting in 18ct palladium white gold with similar yellow gold details and shank © Barbara Heath. We supplied the three antique rose cut diamonds to fill the central element.
Blogroll and jeweller to the lost - commisions and malcolm enright bespoke, fashion, gem stones and high carat metal, Ring Design, the good things 11:34 am
Beautifully made to a very specific brief, weighty metal encasing a beautiful stone – to last forever!
More lovely solid metal, eight precision hand made settings encasing nine diamonds with the same specifications.
Blogroll and jeweller to the lost - commisions and jeweller to the lost - retail range and malcolm enright bespoke, blogging, colonial tinsmiths, exhibition, fashion, gem stones and high carat metal, the good things 12:47 pm
A break from the studio is indeed a holiday but all we do is work at our other project – the restoration of our Tunbridge shop and residence. We did a three day jaunt to Strahan via Queenstown and home north through Zeehan and Waratah where we continued our tinsmith research. Barbara and I found her Great Grandfather’s grave in the old cemetery outside the town where the Mount Bischoff tin mine was active in the 19th century. We secured ore samples, the bicentennial book on the region’s history and talked to many folk who were interested to chat tin . . .
Found two luscious early and now rare – pontypool japanned (tinned iron ware trays) for the collection.
Barbara’s second one-person show opened on the 15th March in Hobart’s Handmark Gallery to a swollen crowd who turned out to hear her well chosen words on her Tasmanian Landscape and Craig Judd’s twist on the European view of the place as witnessed by the early Hobart surveyor – J. E. Calder, as he opened the painting component of the show (as part of the 10 days on the Island festival). Many of our friends travelled to Hobart from Launceston, Ross and Oatlands to boost our Hobart friends and commissioners. Our show is selling well, Allanah managed a nice article in the Hobart Mercury on the morning of the show also.
The rest of the time we worked on the shop and in the garden while the painters prepped and painted the front and back awnings and the attached building. Kim and mal E did the carpentry repairs, a few shots below. We achieved much in a small time and managed visits to Clarendon with Warwick Oakman, Ros Palmer, cousins Sandra and Tommy, Graham Mulligan, Miles Davis-Kielar, Ray and Pat, Allan and Linda Cooper, dealers Joan at Sandy Bay, Carl at New Town and Tim at Campbell Town, Allan and Sandy Davis, Graham and Ann Hesse, Lyn and Rob Robson, the lovely Emma and Ray, our accountants from Brisbane Mary and Robert Edwards, our pal Annie the wwoofer, Joy and Kim, Joy and Kevin, Norman and Claire Pearce and the Tunbridge brigade. Huge thanks to Babe and ‘clock man’ Paul Jones for the loan of the diesel ute for the entire month. We missed seeing Marg and Steve Jones, Robert and Michael at Longford, Dot and Mike Evans and only managed a chat with George Burrows on the dog’nbone. Travelled and gained ‘velocity’ points with Virgin with ronE in the baggage hold. Back to 7 screaming commissions and 32 job bags on the shelf – wouldn’t be dead for quids!
I’ve posted ten big Tassie panorama shots on my Tumbr site . . . here
