Spring has sprung...and bling, have some...

 

 

This was quite an unusual piece to have made. The “flowers”being somewhat chunky in appearance, lending quite an abstract feel to the ring. One can’t really see it too clearly in the image, but the devil was in the details with this one – yellow (M/N coloured) diamonds set into red gold settings, where the rest of the ring was manufactured in white gold. Quite an artistic little number.

 

 

 

 

A pretty, ornate and leaf-like engagement ring with its variations in colour and texture. The raised areas of the ring being smooth (polished) and yellow gold, and the recessed areas being matt and white gold (plated). Also an eternity –so the design continues all the way around the finger.

 

 

 

 

Every time I look at this ring I think back to my grandmother and the jewellery she used to wear. It has such an “antique” feel, yet it’s been modernised somewhat with a few current tweaks (less fine, dainty filigree detail/marquise shaped setting inserts – top etc). The stone (the client’s own) is also such a beautiful colour in contrast to the white ring. It is almost cognac/champagne in hue, and really quite unusual and special. Such a pity that they (olden day stone cutters) used to feel the need to cut off the culet (point of the stone – pavillion section/underneath) of the stones. Apparently a beautifully cut (proportionately correct/allowing for optimal reflectiveness) stone, was not of importance back then, and design was the priority. Which is why so many of the older diamonds we see in antique jewellery are not brilliant cut (round) and incorporating 52 facets in total.

 

 

 

 

Another “flower” ring – comprising three main blossoms, made up of curved and individually placed petals – each unique and seperate from the next. Quite striking in it’s boldness. Like a bouquet of sparkly, shiny, everlasting blooms.

 

 

 

 

This ring is one of the more conventional designs one saw a lot of in the 80’s. Typically trying to immulate the “Princess Diana” cluster ring style, without a central oval sapphire of course, and instead making use of a circular ring of smaller ones. Three-teared and quite timeless in it’s easily recognisable design style. I don’t think cluster rings will ever go out of fashion, for every few years I’m asked to make one again – no matter the current jewellery techniques, styles and developments, readily available to us today.