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Contour-A sneak peak into the new collection

Monday, October 12th, 2009

At last I can show you a little sneak peak into Contour, my new jewelry collection. First, a little explanation of the name of the new jewelry collection. Why Contour?

From the dictionary:
contour |ˈkänˌtoŏr|noun (usu. contours)
an outline, esp. one representing or bounding the shape or form of something : she traced the contours of his face with her finger. | figurative the contours of American life.

Perhaps you remember, I was talking in an earlier blog post about the process of creating the pieces. Basically it went like this: I crocheted wire, used my fancy rolling mill to flatten it, then digitized it. The result was an outline of the original crocheted piece. Contour!

With the help of my friend Liz, of www.anomalydesign.com, who also happens to be a fab graphic designer, not to mention a very patient teacher, we took that original piece and transformed it into many shapes - circles, ovals, teardrops, and squares. Thank you Liz! You rock!

Arranging all these shapes into one file and getting it right was no easy task. Thank god for good friends! With the help of my good friend Enrique, who happens to be a whiz with photoshop, we got my digital file off to Israel where it actually got reproduced onto metal (under the watchful eye of my mother, thank you Ima!) .

I received the parts back here in San Francisco, and had a blast making them into magnificent pieces of finished jewelry by adding beads, and combining different pieces together. This time, I focused primarily on combining the three metal colors together 24K gold, Rose Gold and Silver, to create two and even three-tone pieces. I combined the pieces with Freshwater Pearls, Mother of Pearl, Blue Kyanite, Black Onyx, Red Cherry Quartz, Citrine and bright blue Turquoise. The result is before you… well partially… this is a sneak peak… The collection in it’s entirety has over 100 pieces. I will have the entire jewelry line available online before Xmas, so stay tuned!

So here we are - Introducing Contour 09. My new baby!

Keren