Introducing Jessica!

Jessica Nehme, one of our newer goldmiths, joined our team at Jewel Envy in 2017. She is over-the-moon excited as she is currently in process of preparing a line of pieces to display in our studio. Her designs are inspired by her passion in studying world religions, metaphysics, spirituality, sacred geometry and nature.

Stay tuned for the launch date of Jessica's unique line!  

 

Custom Orders, 

Made just for You

At Jewel Envy, most goldsmiths can make your dream piece, just the way you want it. 

There are a few important steps to follow though to avoid disappointment and make sure you get what you want and give your piece of jewellery with this very more special and unique feel.

After a first discussion about the project we would then send you a quote and drawing, once agreed and a deposit paid, we would them start working on the piece. 

One of my lovely customer wanted three brooches. She was thinking of something with the eternal knot symbol which has different meaning in different cultures and has been around Since 2500BC (yes it’s true). I do wear myself a bracelet with this  sign on my arm everyday as a reminder of various symbols in my life, therefore as such I was also well inspired.  This particular customer and I share something as both lived in HK, maybe that why we both like this symbol.... anyways...back to the custom order process 

For me personally making this brooch was something new, and I tried a few methods before deciding how to go about it. At the end I decided to fabricated the brooches from thick metal sheet rather than carve them out of wax. I showed the prototype (in brass) to my client and we agreed to make it ticker and keep it to the same size. 

I then started working on making all three pieces for her and I believed she was very happy with the final pieces, one which I believe was for her to keep two to give away the special people in her life.

Here  are a few of the pictures (I really need to make a mental note to myself to take a good picture of every piece before selling them!!!!!).

At Jewel Envy we thrive to offer our clients with unique service and beautiful jewellery pieces just the way they want them....  open communication is key in order to achieve this. 

Other goldsmiths here all have different experiences and each custom order is a different as our lovely customers,

Come and talk to us about what we can make for you, 

Have a lovely beautiful Sunday,

Ivane Thiebaut Goldsmith at Jewel Envy

Upcoming Classes!

Dear Sunday Readers,

There are so many things going on at Jewel Envy right now, we have our special in studio exhibition, "Asymmetric", on display. Help us to find out who made the best piece of jewellery for the show by voting in the store in person or by viewing our blog and voting online!

Among many other classes, that you can check on our web site, like Earrings on October 28th or Band Rings on November 3^rd, our last 8-week classes for 2018 are Casting-intro and intermed on October 18^th and Introductory Fabrication on October 23<sup>rd

Register for classes here!</sup>

I love the opportunity to give you a quick and illustrative information about casting with one of my own pieces.

In the lost wax casting process, the casting in created using a centrifuge.

Centrifuge

                                 

             

Ones the wax model has been invested in a flask mold (you can see more than one wax on the pic bellow), it’s embedded in investment plaster, then the wax is eliminated from the mold by heat, after been on the kiln for than 8 hours, the flask mold in mounted on the centrifuge in a crucible in which metal is pour in an amount sufficient to fill the mold.

wax tree

covering with plaster

 

The centrifuge does its work and after a couple of minutes you can take the flask and poured it on the water.

The result is amazing, you have now the pieces in metal ready to be attached and polish!

casted pieces

casted pieces cut apart

The final piece of jewelry is done! do not miss the great opportunity of doing it yourself and enjoy one of the most incredible process in jewelry making!

finished piece!

This and more are what we do at Jewel Envy, come to visit us and become a part of our great and incredible daily life!

Have a nice Sunday!

 

Fall coloured gems

I love LOVE love LOVE love LOOOOOOve fall! If fall were a gemstone my pick would be garnet. I made a collage from images I found on google of the range of garnet colours to show off garnet's potential as the official gemstone of fall.

Green is tsavorite garnet, orange is spessatite garnet, red is almandine, purple is rhodolite.

 There are so many different variations of red garnets specifically and most people associate garnets with a red coloured gem, there are also other colours! I love letting people know about less common colours - such as the bright green of tsavorite garnets, or the range of orange hues found in spessartite garnets.

What would you choose as the gemstone of fall?
-Alexis