Bars vs Drop Earrings
Bars vs Drop Earrings
During my latest making session, I wanted to create a collection of sleek and elegant earrings
If you have been following my metal smithing journey, you will know I have experimenting and playing around with different techniques and ideas
During my last making session, I decided I wanted to go back to basics, and create a collection of simple, sleek elegant sterling silver earrings.
I came up with the design of a small bar sterling silver studs:
I really loved how they came out, and so I started playing around with different lengths and textures:
This lead me to think about the logistics of how the earrings would hang on the ear, bar earrings would have design constraint in terms of length practicalities,
One design I came up with to allow me to create a longer length T Bar earring was to add a curbe that follows the natural line of the ear:
I really love this design, but there will always be a limit to the length of the earrings.
As a solution I came up with drops earrings:
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These will form part of my collection of Handmade Sterling Silver Stud Collection, when I have added them to the website later this week.
What do you think?
Keep reading my metal smithing blog series to see what else I come up with.
Joolz xxx
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