Just in case you readers have been asleep at the wheel, I’ve been adding some sort of Native American style silver and turquoise adornments to my frames.
The economy is still very sluggish and not a lot of folks beating down my door for car or bicycle work so, I have been slowly teaching myself to make some selected bits of jewelry like items. Here are a few belt buckles I recently finished. All are of overlay design and both use the paste silver to both join the layers and to add a pleasing texture to the exposed surfaces
Bear Claw and turquoise
Oso-Bear fetish
Turtles emerging from the underworld Stabilized Kingman turquoise and white Buffalo stone on Sterling silver.
The turtle motif is the latest. These are selling off the shelf as fast as I can make them. Who knew..??
Silver wolf-howling at a silver moon
..and here’s a variation on the howling wolf..
Winter lament
More to come, I reckon.
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