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We've got Tanzanite Earrings!!!
We've got Tanzanite Earrings!!!
I have had a few customers asking for Tanzanite jewellery over the past few months
Tanzanite is known as blue zoisite, and is a type of epidote, which activates several chakras from the heart to the crown and is used to link the mind with the heart.
A powerful transformation gemstone, Tanzanite is fantastic to use when developing spiritual abilities and growth.
Tanzanite is one of those stones that are hard to get at a reason price, so when I was offered them online,I snapped them up.
Unfortunately when I recived them there was a slight catch, that they where all random shapes, and different shades, along with being smaller than expected:
Mixed shaped Tanzanite cabochons
This naturally put a dent in my design ideas with them, and I put them in a draw to be worked wih later.
A regular customer visted one of my markets in May, and asked if I had any Tanzanite earrings, to add to her collecton of Joolzery earrings.
The only thing I could offer her was studs, which realy isn't her thing.
Since then I have had a number of enquiries about Tanzanite earrings, but still hadn't decided how I was going to incorporate these gorgeous stones that I had into my jewellery design.
With the Pop up in the Palm House Winter Market fast approaching, I really didn't want to disappoint my regular customer and took those tanzanite out of the draw.
I decided that I would make 3 pars of earrings.
This would be my trickest bezel setting exercise as not are these the smallest cabochons I have worked with but also the most irregular.
With a bit of perserverience, innovation and obligatory swearing all the fine silver side walls have been made and are ready to solder to the back plates.
I love the goriousshades of purple/violet blue of these Tanzanite cabochons, but somehow with 20 pieces of this healing stone I cannot find a matching pair in terms aof shope of colour!!!
There's nothing for it these will have to be asymmetric earrings, which I love anyway as I think it makes things more interesting!
Working with the longest and biggest pair of tanzanite cabochons, I wanted to create a setting for the long rectangular stones, and thought a diamond orientation of the back plate would compliment the stone:
Handcrafted recycled sterling silver diamond Tanzanite earrings
Working with the next pair of tanzanite cabochons, I wanted to create a different geomtric setting for these mismatched stones, and played around with a square, oval and triangle back plate setting before deciding to go with a hexagonal one, to compliment the stone, in different orientations:
Handcrafted recycled sterling silver hexagonal Tanzanite earrings
As to the third pair, well as you can see they didn't quite make it as the setting was made to small on one of the earrings, so I will have to scrap it and start again.
Due to the sizes of these Tanzanite cabochon, I think my other designs are going to be influenced by Rennie McKintosh, especially any pendants and/or rings I make.
All these pieces are currently not on my website, but you can email me if you see something that you like.
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