This RoseBall polymer necklace from Italy’s Laura Bocchi is an elegant solution to jewelry construction. She embeds ball chain in polymer as a design element and bakes the entire necklace.
Laura has also used guitar strings to achieve the same effect.
I’ll be teaching a polymer sampler class at our new art center this fall (there’s still room!) and my eye is drawn to smart, simple designs as I think about class projects.
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we are proud of Laura and is beautyful technics!
greatings from Italy !
Genius!
I’ve always loved the idea of embedding and layering of materials into polymer. Laura’s piece is so elegant, but with a touch of industrial. Lovely piece.
Ingenious use of connections and wire in her work. Thanks for sharing it Cynthia! You are the best!
Whoooooo that Italian style really catches the eye
I love the cloud piece…it totally rocks!
Nice use of mixed media. I would love to know how Laura has tamed the wild guitar strings. I have some and can’t get them to behave.