Prototypes for the new KNOT Paper Twine jewelry line The process to arrive at a finished jewelry design can take quite a while. Usually I start with an idea for a piece, sometimes sketch, sometimes the idea for a new or simplified technique. For the newest pieces in the PaperPhine collection the technique was found quite easily: knots. The knots take advantage of the paper twines' "body" - the knots form nicely and ...
June 11, 2012
A new studio helper: a dress form in the making
We do have one dress form in the studio that is a big help for taking all kinds of pictures when no one else feels like modelling. We tend to call her - and it's obviously a she-form! - Suzie or Stracciatella and both quite affectionally, especially the later. To explain, Stracciatella is one of the studio's favorite ice-cream flavours ("... gelato with a vanilla base and chocolate shavings... It is somewhat analogous to ...
June 06, 2012
New Stained Wooden Bobbins (not only for Paper Twine!)
We're forever trying to organize all the paper twines and paper yarns in the studio and therefore we're always looking for new bobbins. It's not easy to find bobbins these days - it seems that there are no bobbin makers left at all! Luckily by now we have an idea of where to look and whom to ask... Thanks to the newest delivery of New Stained Wooden Bobbins the studio actually looks quite organized at the moment. We ...
