ETRUSCAN
BUTTERFLY 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:
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Discussion and review, of the history of Etruscan and Roman jewelry
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Discussion of the Design Process
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Discussion of Design Elements – things you can manipulate
as a designer
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Discussion of what “Contemporizing” means, and how
design elements may be manipulated to achieve a more contemporized
piece. Some differences between “contemporizing traditional
jewelry” and “revitalizing vintage jewelry”
- Discussion of what kinds of things we can do to contemporize
the traditional Etruscan butterfly necklace
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Create a design-plan for a bracelet made with two bead-woven components
and one wire-worked component
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Use brick-stitch to create simple butterfly components
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Use tubular peyote to create a bezel setting, which in this project
I call a “shoe”, for a 10x14mm cabochon and with which
to use as a bracelet component
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Use simple wire-wrapping technique to create a cloverleaf connector
and a figure 8 connector
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Play with and evaluate ideas for assembling the bracelet components
into a successful and satisfying contemporized piece
| LEARNING
OBJECTIVES |
CONTEMPORIZING
TRADITIONAL JEWELRY:
The Etruscan Butterfly Bracelet |
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INTERMEDIATE |
ADVANCED |
| TECHNICAL
MECHANICS |
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Managing Thread Tension |
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Holding Your Piece To Work It |
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Reading Simple Pattern, Figure and/or Graph |
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Selecting Materials |
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Identifying Areas of Potential Weakness, and
Strategies for Dealing With These |
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Determining Measurements, including Width and Length of a
Piece, Especially In Relationship To Bead Sizes |
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Finishing Off Threads in Piece or Adding Threads |
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Using tools to shape and form wire and wire components |
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| UNDERSTANDING
CRAFT BASIS OF STITCH |
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Starting the Stitch |
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Implementing the Basic Stitch |
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Finishing Off Your Piece With A Clasp Assembly |
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Creating Simple Surface Embellishment |
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Increasing and Decreasing |
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Working Stitch in Tubular Form |
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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 |
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Manipulating hard wire to make structural supports |
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| UNDERSTANDING
ART & DESIGN BASIS OF STITCH |
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Learning Implications When Choosing Different Sizes/Shapes
of Beads, or Using Different Stringing Materials |
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Understanding Relationship of this Stitch or Technique in
Comparision to Other Types of Bead Weaving Stitches or other
Techniques |
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Understanding How Bead Asserts Its Need For Color, Using
These Techniques |
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Understanding Design Elements and strategies for their maniipulation |
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Creating Your Own Design with This Stitch, in Reference
to Jewelry Design Principles of Composition |
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Building "support systems" within a piece of jewelry |
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Creating Shapes, Components and Forms with This Stitch,
and Establishing Themes |
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Adding dimensionality and movement |
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| BECOMING
JEWELRY DESIGN ARTIST |
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Managing Materials, Colors, Components and Forms, from selection
to arrangements to transitions |
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Contemporizing Traditional Jewelry |
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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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