crafts and decorative art

starburst shaped fabricated oxidized sterling silver

This is a spherical undulating free-blown glass form.

Per S.B. - Silver hair ornament, upper part is wire rectang;e of flat, 1/8" silver combined with four other pieces of the same size. Red and black beads threaded in a fine wire worked through the...

enamel process - "plique-a-jour"

APPROXIMATE DATE: 1930 ARTIST BIRTH: 1880 ARTIST DEATH: 1943

Sterling silver bracelet cuff watch. The analog watch movement is made by the Elgin National Watch Company, and is set within an ebony trapezoid.

This is a pendant constructed with Sterling silver and gold wire. A fine chain is looped to the ends of a horizontal crescent-shaped bar. An open wire honeycomb form hangs below the crescent...

Linen, rayon, oil paint and dyes This picture is made from woven strips of painted paper and rayon yarns. It is glued to a cotton canvas backing and attached to a wooden stretcher with a middle...

APPROXIMATE DATE: 1933 ARTIST BIRTH: 1894 ARTIST DEATH: 1954

Forged sterling silver salad servers (spoon and fork)

Hanging textile made from monofilament, hand dyed black with RIT dye, using plain weave, double, quadruple and tubular weave.

Baltic birch plywood, poplar, ripple maple, sitka spruce, epoxy resin inlay, oil based lithography inks.

Plique a Jour-Electroformed on copper foil, transparent pint interior, copper and iron exterior, surface reduction by Raku technique.

Framed enamel on copper panel. Background is primarily white. Copper shows through in some areas, both oxidized and unoxidized. Abstract forms are carved into the enamel on left and right of panel...

Round brooch with spiral design made of wire and attached beads and pearls. Round hanging attachment made of wire and hooks.

from artist's notes: Wood fabrication, lamination, epoxy inlay and airbrush anglin dying. Materials: Birch plywood, maple, Sitka spruce, Colorcore formica, epoxy resin, pine knots. Source of...