Seba Silver

Learning some basic filigree techniques

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While I have been attempting some SEO for this site Doka has been carrying on with creating some new jewellery for our 2012 season.  Yesterday I offered my ‘help’ with some of his work… My mission was to turn some of these (left) fine silver threads into some of these…

It appears so easy, especally when Doka experienced fingers are involved.  I feel so clumsy but determined to get the threads rolling in the right direction.   The threads that we are using are only .4mm wide, and my fingers do not yet ‘feel’ the silver and roll it like an expert.  I like instant results, I like my current knitting project on 20mm needles and I so want to get this right.

The initial roll is started with a pair of tweezers and tweeking the silver very slightly to start circular pattern. Once the beginning of the circle is formed it is then rolled between finger and thumb.

Of course I want my rolls to be perfect and they didn’t always co-operate but after some time I ended up with about 40 of these; (they’re tiny!!!)

They are being used to help fill in the framework that you can see above, and these pieces will become part of a new bracelet.  Although I am often here and able to observe the work that is involved in creating our filigree jewellery it was a great for me to be more involved and gain even more appreciation of all the work that goes into each of our completed pieces of jewellery.  The bracelet will be made up of 6 of the rectangular pieces that you can see above and will be ready to load onto the website sales section shortly.

 

 

 

An unusual request

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A diving friend asked Adolf to create something unique for his mask handle.  Here at Seba Silver we love a challenge, below are some photos of the process and finished piece.  The central D is for Dino – our customer, he was stunned by the beauty of the finished piece that was beyond what he ever imagined.
Soldering the silver framework for dive mask art work.
Inserting the coral in helmet art

 

All the coral is in place.
Completed dive helmet handle art.
What do you think of the finished piece?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let Fantasy In

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It is my pleasure to welcome Helen Bogun of  Helz-Design, http://helz-design.com/ as a guest to our blog site.
Helen is a graphic designer based in Berlin and has written a great piece about creativity for us;

LET FANTASY IN

Do we really lose our creativity when we get older?

I really doubt this, but many of my friends claim that it is exactly this way.

Remember the good old days being a little child just taking a colorful pencil or a brush and your watercolors and just starting to paint?

Or the feeling of finger painting colors on your skin?

Very sensual experiences I know, and very important.

And these experiences can still offer great benefits, even if you have passed the twenty year mark!

Just give it a chance,  your children will love you for it.

We usually rip ourselves away from dealing with paints, wool, fabrics, modeling clay and other stuff. We think it is no longer appropriate because we are adults.

Adults don’t do that.

No way.

We also tend to think that creativity is something for real artists.

We are not artists; at least that is what we have been told.

And that makes us think that we lost our creativity while growing up.

We never lost it and we will never lose it.

Actually  you need to be creative many times a day, when solving a problem, for example.

Only a creative mind is able to solve problems.

Being creative just means to give your fantasy a chance to manage the process, to allow your mind to think in a way you have never thought before.  See things from a different angle.

Creativity does not mean to re-invent the wheel, just to find a different way to deal with it.

Think about the jewelry of Seba Dizajn. Some of us might think, that it is simple silver mixed with some gems. It is more; it is the imagination & creativity behind it. The imagination that is able to create something new out of simple and well-known things.

I know you can do it too.

You can see the flower in the colors you are painting.

You can see the bread in the flour you are putting in the bowl.

You can see the sweater in the wool you are going to knit.

Just take a brush, remember the child you have been and start painting.

Creativity is in each of us.

It makes live worth living, but it also means to step aside from the used path in life.

This may require stepping out of your comfort zone and feeling insecure, but this insecurity can be overcome.

Just do it!

Step aside, and open the door to a new adventure in life.

Experiment with anything you can get – clay, colors, wool even the computer …

Tell us about your creativity?

What do you like most?

Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend

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Hmmm, a blog around a song title relevant to our industry… nothing with filigree in the title springs to mind.

Filigree, your new best friend!

Here at Seba Dizajn/Seba Silver we would like to make a push for Filigree becoming the girls new best friend. 

Actually our filigree could easily become the boys best friend too, have a look at our cufflinks on www.facebook.com/SebaDizajn or www.sebasilver.com a fantastic gift for the next birthday of someone special in your life.

One of many in our cufflink collection