This was the first spiculum floral necklace I made. It was made in the spring of 2008. I had wanted to work with the spiculum form since I learned about it in Mike Croft’s metalsmithing class at the University of Arizona in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.
My experiment was to see if I could bend the spiculum and join them together, then as the piece progressed I added the Coral ovals and the forged bead wires of different sizes. I make the chain of smaller spiculums, some of which I totally enclosed as if they were an unopened flower.
Vicki Turbeville of www.southwesternjewelry.net to sold it very quickly in New York City.
Most of the silver in this piece is Argentium Sterling but the bead wires and some of the different diameters of round wire were of regular sterling. After I completed this piece I wanted to try more welding of Argentium and did that over the next couple months with other spiculum floral necklaces which I will post soon.
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Lisa 10.19.08 at 10:25 am
Very nice necklace, Sam.
jmwjewelry 10.21.08 at 7:19 am
Beautiful! Very organic, and I love the red stones - they really make the necklace pop with color!