#industrial jewelry

[jewelrydocument]

JULIUS X FANGOPHILIA

Via @_julius7official

[creekfiend]

something that drives me insane on a relatively regular basis as a body jewelry understander is talking to people who have sensitive skin who are like "oh well I just can't wear any earrings without my ears getting inflamed" and I say "well what have you tried" and they say "well I've tried sterling silver and I've tried gold..." and it's like. ok. I don't know how gold and sterling somehow got spun by the jewelry industry as being especially good for sensitive skin but whenever I'm like "well have you tried implant grade titanium" they're always like "no....... but I've tried sterling silver... and it didn't work ..." like. I don't know how this narrative about sterling silver somehow got so strong but when they put pins in your fucking legs when you snap your leg in half are those pins made of sterling silver or are they made of implant grade titanium or surgical steel????????? HELLO. HI. YOU MIGHT BENEFIT FROM TRYING IMPLANT GRADE TITANIUM I AM JUST SAYING

[rainquartzjewelry]

New jewelry is available at RainQuartzJewelry.Etsy.com ✨🦋🌙

[pngblog]

Black panthers, chains and black royles royce please?

[skepticalpigeon]

This may be a bad feminism take but....

I think part of the reason it's so common that people harp on about lab-grown diamonds for jewelry and how unethical blood diamonds are is (at least subconsciously) because it's women recieving the diamonds, even if they don't buy them. It's women asking for diamonds and oftentimes women defending "blood diamonds", and women who are judged for wanting mined diamonds. And I wonder if the backlash against this rather than other issues might be due to the fact that the consumer is mainly women, and women are often socially discouraged from being selfish or greedy, while no similar pressure is applied to men on a wider basis. Because God forbid a woman want a status symbol, or to feel powerful and important, or just to exercise her will over others the same way men do without (as much) judgement. I don't think blood diamonds are ethical and I'm not arguing that they are, but I think of all the wrongs in our supply chain, this is one people get disproportionately hung up on.

[asuddensway]

Maison Martin Margiela line 11 STAR necklace

A/W 2007

[lesbianbrodydalle]

i love her

[silverbirching]

Are manufactured diamonds really indistinguishable from natural diamonds? And do you have an opinion on whether manufactured diamonds will make natural diamonds obsolete?

Physically? Chemically? Yup, they are in every way, shape and form diamonds. Back in the old days, when they made synthetic diamonds via a process called chemical vapor deposition, it was sometimes possible to distinguish them visually under magnification. Nowadays, the technology has improved to the point where I, a graduate gemologist, cannot visually distinguish between them with any of the tools I have available. Advanced laboratory testing and very expensive equipment is required.

They've certainly caused a shake-up in the diamond industry, with the price of LG crashing tremendously the last two years and taking the price of earth-mined with it. Long term...? Obsolescence is a spectrum. If the earth-mined diamond industry tanks, so will the supply, prices will rise... it'll be interesting to see. I think earth-mined will still have some cachet once things level off. We've had synthetic colored stones for 150 years at this point, and people still want Columbian emeralds.

Now, what I think is SUPER COOL about LG diamonds is that because the material is so cheap, comparatively speaking, they're doing REALLY AWESOME THINGS with them. Like this ring, carved entirely out of a lab grown-diamond:

Or this super unique flame-cut diamond:

People are experimenting with weird shapes, odd colors, oddball cuts and experimental designs, which I think is SUPER COOL. Diamonds are beautiful (I'm aware of the industry and synthetic demand and all that jazz. The fact remains, they are beautiful stones. Look at a well-cut diamond in good lighting. They are stunning and magical) and I'm really excited to see what they'll come up with next, design-wise. I wear lab-grown diamonds. So does my husband. I like 'em.

[babybatzsblog]

In the age of super-boredom Hype and mediocrity Celebrate relentlessness Menace to society

[strawberrynida]

Clandestine Bracelets

Comissioned bracelets as a birthday gift to the commissioner’s girlfriend! They’re meant to be in different styles yet complement one another if they’re worn together by chance. They feature a heart-bat (one being filled with black enamel) with black, red, and white beads, set on a linked chain (in a simple chainmaille design). These heavily remind me of Pete Wentz’s brand, clandestine industry.

[heysomeday]

amethyst choker & necklace in a style i really like but that never got a lot of traction

[jewelrydocument]

Rita Wolkotrub in Parts of 4 / Jannah Roy bu Kyoung Kim

Via @jannahroy

[baravaggio]

urghh I've never been into the look of a ton of cartilage piercings but this setup has me questioning that...I love the look of the more simple jewelry

[coveredinmetaldust]

The Industry

December, 2014 Sterling Silver, Cubic Zirconias, Quartz The ring is 5cm tall. The big stone is: 3.1cm x 2.1cm x 5cm (HxWxD)

Some more old work.

This ring was part of a series of work where I made fun of the modern commercial jewelry aesthetic. The idea came from working within the jewelry industry for a time, and becoming acutely aware of just how gaudy and ugly a lot of rings were. The stones were incredibly important for those rings, and more often than not designs would be based around shoehorning the biggest rock they could into a particular ring. So, I decided to take this idea to its next logical extreme by setting a comically large stone on top of a massive band.

Here’s a snippet from the original artist statement:

It is an aberrant abomination which I hesitate to call a ring. It is an absurd joke befitting the mockery that I consider contemporary jewelry to be. It represents all the contempt which I hold towards the gem encrusted standard created by the likes of companies who care more about their bottom line than creativity. It is the next logical progression to the ungodly "centerpiece" gems which are so often the focal point of their jewelry items. It is absurd, it is comical, and it is how I view such jewelry.

[boyobjectifier]

pls cross your fingers and toes, light a candle or pray for me

because i sent an email to a small company for a jeweler job (at the beginning of school, i drove by there and told my partner that i would love to work for them someday if i ever could 🥹)

[cuntwrap--supreme]

Where we started

Where we are now