I made this for my sister but now that a see these earrings I think its the worst thing I've never made
Sunday, 29 September 2013
beaded bracelet
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| first design |
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| second design |
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| finale design |
This is a bracelet
that I made to go along with a shweshwe dress my friend had made for umbondo (traditional
Zulu ceremony when the future bride with her family send food and gives to the
grooms home).
African print studs
These I the stud
earrings that I bought from the fashion
fair and my friends wanted me to get them made for them but in their own
print.
Fashion fair
I went to the Durban
fashion fair and I saw a lot of interesting fashion designers that I would l9ove
to work with. It was a good way to network and I went to most of the stands
there introduced myself told them what I do and gave them business cards. Most
of them seemed keen to give me a call and I am much exited to hear from them.
One of the designer asked if I could I could come to her boutique with my
jewellery but the problem is I don’t have a full range of jewellery and I want
to go there with a lot of things to show.
Thuthuka bead
It was close to hand in and
I didn't have a bead so I took the pieces that I had folded up just as prototype
and attached them together and it make my bead.
bead
this is the bead that was my first prototype and I have under glazes it then glazed it then added some lustre on it.
budvase
These are the bud vases
that I make for Thuthuka. I enjoyed working in clay and will definitely work
in it in the future when I get the time.
lloyd's tool
Punching the dots on the
plate was becoming to time consuming so I asked Lloyd to make me a tool that
make the dots for me and it works perfectly
Anglo gold design
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| bangle on the body |
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| side view of the bangle |
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| rendered drawing of the bangle
The Anglo gold design competition was due and I used the technique that I was busy experimenting with and made a
prototype for the competition which was
a bangle that was tapered from the ends to the middle. I took a picture of the bangle then printed it to trace on then render and it came out beautiful.
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my own folds
I'm trying to come up with my own folds from the ones I have been
doing with aluminium
I figured that need my fold
to be more defined and the lines to be more accurate so I started punching
dots where I want my fold to be.
fold forming
After folding up paper it
was time to start with folding metal and I was trying the the fold that I did
in paper in aluminium .
origami
When I had done the my
first prototype from clay I knew I
wanted the bead to be made up from folded up metal but I had to learn how to fold up paper into
the desired shapes that I wanted and experiment with different types of folds.
African bead
This is the bead that was my first prototype for the Thuthuka competition. I wanted to design a bead with the triangular shape from the beads in kwaNongoma so I carved out little triangles in a bigger geometric shape.
Phansi museum
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| painted sticks from msinga |
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| beaded Nongoma pattern |
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| beaded skirt worn by young Shangaan girls |
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| belts worn by the Nguni's from the nineteenth century |
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| Iziqaza from Msinga |
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| Zulu pots |
When I went to the Phansi
museum I I saw a lot of traditional African motifs from different Nguni polities such as the Xhosa, Zulu, KwaNdebele
and the Swazi It was very interesting to see what type of art effect does each
group make. When I went there I was looking at the beaded work that was there
and there was some amazing piece that all these different groups make. The one
style that really caught my eye was the beaded pieces from the Zulus in
kwaNongoma. I love the way that they use small triangular shape to create bigger geometric shapes and it is the type of forms and shapes that I want to look at
to design the fashion jewellery.
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