camwyn: (jewelry)
camwyn ([personal profile] camwyn) wrote2019-08-14 09:22 am
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I gotta change my Jewelry icon.

Or at least get a better pic of that pendant... anyway, I have two pieces to show off today. I'll put the other one up later. For now, here, an experiment in ear climbers. Ear crawlers. Whatever, there's like five names for the damn things.


Along the lobe of someone's right ear, a curved line of five very small Herkimer diamonds (double pointed quartz crystals) separated by artistically messy loops of silver wire.

Same deal, but it's a left ear this time.

The two earrings in the palm of someone's hand, showing that the Herkimer diamonds are held to lengths of silver wire by the artistically messy wire.


Herkimer diamonds- double-pointed high clarity quartz crystals, which legally aren't supposed to be called Herkimer diamonds unless they were mined in Herkimer County, NY, but I don't know how much that rule gets obeyed- 28 gauge silver-filled wire, and 21 gauge Argentium silver wire. For reference, Argentium silver is also called Argentium sterling. It's basically sterling silver, but instead of copper, they use the same percentage of germanium, producing a form of silver that experiences little to no tarnish.

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