Chrysocolla - the king of copper gems
Fashion Colorworks 2014 Jurors
Dreaming about Gothic - Lucie Avramova
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Chrysocolla - the king of copper gemsChrysocolla, the king of carbonate copper gemstones, is an alluring, vivid blue-green color and is often mistaken for turquoise because they share many visual similarities. Associated minerals are quartz, limonite, azurite, malachite, cuprite, and other secondary copper minerals. The name comes from the Greek CHRYSOS, "gold", and KOLLA, "glue", in allusion to the name of the material used to solder gold. The name was first used by Theophrastus in 315 B.C. Andre-Jean-Francois-Marie Brochant de Villiers revived the name in 1808. The name "chrysocolla" is often used for any massive, globular, glassy, blue to green copper-bearing silicate minerals which have not been specifically identified as to species. This fancy gemstone has inspired creativity in many artists, whether they were ancient goldsmiths using it as solder, Renaissance painters grinding it as pigment for paint or modern jewelry designer-artists including it within their florid designs. Chrysocolla is an opulent gemstone that can be found with traces of malachite, turquoise, jasper and azurite within it, so combining it with these gorgeous stones to make a beautiful tonal look is very easy. Chrysocolla can be combined in beautiful clusters with the sparkle of Swarovski crystals in rich blue, green and black designer colors. Chrysocolla has the ability to bring harmony, increase wisdom and guide you toward discretion. Notable occurrences include Israel, Democratic Republic of Congo, Chile, Cornwall in England, and Arizona, Utah, Idaho, New Mexico, Michigan, and Pennsylvania in the United States. |
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Fashion Colorworks 2014 Jurors
Patrick Duggan.
Patrick Duggan lives in Sydney, Australia. Having
creative siblings, from the early age of 10, Patrick
started being creative with knitting. Always looking
for that perfect creative expression, Patrick has
successfully tried his hand at drawing, painting,
sculpture and not until his late 50's discovered
beading and in particular beadweaving. Very passionate
about his weaving, Patrick has won awards in Australia,
gone on to exhibit his work in galleries, works as a
teacher of beadweaving at a leading Jewelry School in
Sydney and recently began tutorial writing his patterns.
Blog: patrickduggandesigns.blogspot.com.au
Marsha Wiest-Hines.
Personal adornment and expression of character through
clothing has been a life-long interest of Marsha
Wiest-Hines. She has been creating wearable art for 40
years in the form of theatrical costumes for the stage,
competition clothing and jewelry for ballroom dancers,
and most recently, beadwoven jewelry and accessories.
She was born in Montana, and earned her BFA in Design
and Technical Theater at University of Montana, and a
MA in Costume Design from Purdue University. She lives
in Minneapolis with her husband Carl, where she has
worked as a draper, tailor, designer, and costume shop
manager at the Guthrie Theater and Minneapolis Children's
Theater.
Blog: hauteicebeadworks.blogspot.com
Anneta Valious.
Anneta Valious was born and raised in Moscow. After
graduating from the Moscow State University, she
married and moved to France, where he lives with his
family in the city of Nantes. Beads came into her
life in 2007, quite by accident, but gradually
creating jewelry literally become a way of her life.
Impressed by creativity of Israeli jewelry designer
Dori Csengeri she fell in love with soutache
embroidery. At that time soutache technique was
little known, there was no literature and tutorials
and you had to learn by yourself. But this did not
stop her, on the contrary, gave her a certain
excitement.
Blog: pivoineperles.blogspot.com
Eva Maria Keiser.
Eva Maria Keiser originally from Vienna, Austria,
currently resides in Boise, Idaho, USA. In 2000 bead
art was serendipitously introduced, complimenting a
multi-generational heritage of needlework. The medium
of beads added a new dimension of texture and light
refraction. Her passion for architected structural
design was renewed from witnessing the grandeur of
European masters.
Blog: keiserdesigns.blogspot.com
Patrizia Tager.
Patrizia Tager was born in Italy where she lived till
the age of 12. At the age of 12 her family moved to
London (UK) where she attended school and college.
She graduated with a B.A. Hons. in Fashion Design.
After college Patrizia moved to Israel, where she
resides today. Her interest in beadwork was ignited
after attending basic beadweaving classes at a local
bead shop.
Blog: triz-beadingmania.blogspot.com
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Dreaming about GothicBorn and living in the Czech Republic, Lucie Avramova is already a well-known bead artist. She is from the city of Plzen, that is close to the region where glass beads have been produced for centuries, and Czech Republic is one of the main glass products exporter today. No wonder that it's the land of many talented beadweavers like Lucie! Lucie said, "First time I learned about beads when I was about 10 years old. My relatives were from Jablonec nad Nisou and therefore beads were everywhere in our home. Then I was so young and I did not know techniques like beadweaving or bead embroidery, at that age I prefer painting, singing and playing piano. I've been very busy with my activities and I did not develop my beading skills as such. In my youth, during my studies at high school, I started singing in a heavy metal rock group. I've been a big rebel and beading and other hobbies gone away. Paradoxically, but my last liking was the reason why I returned to beading... It was in 2008, in the beginning of my studies at the West Bohemian University. I really needed a black necklace in gothic style for my performances with my rock group. I was looking for something over the Internet and I discovered fler.cz (Czech equivalent of etsy.com). I remembered I had a box with beads at home! The same day I found it and made what I wanted. Soon I created some more bracelets and necklaces and I even started to sell them on fler.cz. I've studied for 6 years and beading filled every free moment of my life. I started with simple threading, but I understood that I could do more. I admired (and I still admire today) beadwork by Betty Stephan, Miriam Cielo Shimon, and Zoya Gutina, and by many others and I wanted to bead like those artists. First, I learned main beading techniques - peyote, herringbone and brick stitches; then I tried to weave around cabochons and last, I learned bead embroidery. Today I can use many beading techniques but I think I'm still a beginner because I'm learning something new all the time. I graduated from my university in 2012 and continued doctoral studies. During the first year I wised up to my mistake. Anthropology - my field of study - was very interesting, but it wasn't what I really wanted to do. After the first semester I started thinking about my previous life and about beading as an occupation in my future life. The situation on the labor market facilitated my decision: there were no job vacancies for the anthropologists in my country; therefore, I started a small business. Today, I'm a master of anthropology but jewelry design became my work that allows me make money for living. I love colors, music, theater, nature, the fantasy world - as in the books and films, autumn, flowers, rivers, elves, dragons, world of J.R.R. Tolkien and G.R.R. Martin, rivers, mountains, leaves, butterflies, fairy tales, the sun, stars, forests, autumn rains, summer storms, owls, well-being and silence, unexplored lands, pagan world of Celts, Normans, Germans and Slavs. All of these is my inspiration as well as my customers. I often make commission jewelry work for brides and for different occasions..."
Full article by Lucie Avramova
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