Recent Posts Tagged With 'museum'

• Treasures of the Black Death Exhibition

  Posted on Thursday April 2nd, 2009 at 17:30 in museum, historical, archaeology, black death, wallace collection, jewelry hoard

  Dark Side of BlackPart 2 of 2London’s Wallace Collection is currently displaying until mid-May one of the most moving and touching exhibitions of 14th century jewelry and other treasures. If you are lucky enough to live near London or are planning ...

• 13th Century Gold Double Ring Brooch

  Posted on Monday March 30th, 2009 at 17:30 in gold, museum, ring brooch, bygone jewelry, victoria and albert collection, double ring brooch

  Did you guess it was a brooch of some sort? It is actually a cast gold double ring brooch which now belongs to the Victoria and Albert Museum of Design in London . Ancient brooches are called fibula and the round kinds are also known as annular brooc...

• Button Jewelry Inspirations and Tutorials

  Posted on Thursday March 19th, 2009 at 17:30 in museum, button necklace, victoria and albert collection, free button tutorials

  I've featured button jewelry before where artisans applied different techniques to transform pretty buttons into jewelry. Here are some more inspirational work using both holed buttons as well as shank ones. Two of these feature designers below took ...

• Stiletto Shoe Pendant Necklace and Stiletto Jewelry Stand

  Posted on Wednesday March 11th, 2009 at 17:30 in museum, victoria and albert collection, stiletto shoe pendant necklace, stiletto jewelry stand

  Stiletto Jewelry PointersPart 2 of 2Well, there is the kind stiletto jewelry we know. Then there is jewelry where the pendant is really a stiletto! Who knew you could wear your shoe around your neck?This necklace is the creation of fashion designers,...

• The Kazanjian Red Diamond on Exhibit

  Posted on Saturday January 17th, 2009 at 17:30 in museum, Diamond, gemstone, red diamond, famous gemstone, rare gemstone, moussaieff red diamond, kazanjian, los angeles natural history museum, kazanjian red diamond

  Of all the fancy coloured diamonds, blood red ones are the rarest of all. Out of the few dozen known red diamonds, only 3 are over 5 carats. The largest is the trilliant cut Moussaieff Red at 5.11 carats. But close behind is the Kazanjian Red at 5.05...