My Inspiration: This Necklace!! In my first post, I mentioned the necklace that belonged to my friend’s mother who received it as a gift in the 60’s, When I saw it, I recognized it as a chainmaille weave, European 4 in 1 to be exact. It was made with many hundreds of tiny, tiny GOLD…
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Elsa Peretti, was a famous jewelry designer known for many iconic designs. Working for Tiffany, she came up with a technique which she called Mesh, a finely woven metal with silk-like qualities. In 1974 she introduced her famous Gold Mesh Bib Necklace. This story is told in the video “Elsa Peretti – Fifteen of my Fifty”…
Continue Reading »Micromaille Mesh -Micro is from the Greek word micros meaning small as in micrometer, microsecond, microgram. The term Flat Mesh has been used to describe a particular chainmaille weave called European 4-1. This weave lies flat on the wrist or body as opposed to the other main weaves like Byzantine or Turkish Round or Persian…
Continue Reading »Hello everyone! I’m so pleased to announce that my new website is finally online! We hired a local web developer to redesign the site on the WordPress platform with an integrated online shop & customizer! We are so excited to get started adding to the site and making it into more and more of a…
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