New Tahmi Woven Metal Jewelry at Brooke Pottery
New at Brooke Pottery this week is a stunning collection of handwoven metal jewelry by Tahmi. Embedded in glass, woven sterling silver and gold wire is magnified to reveal intriguing patterns. Shop Tahmi jewelry online or read on to learn more about the artist.
We fell in love with this jewelry at market this spring and are excited to finally share it with you! Tahmi’s new Woven Aster collection features an aster flower cast in relief on top of each glass square, with a woven “fabric” of sterling or gold wire beneath. The result is dazzling. If you are searching for statement jewelry that you can wear time and time again, with any color, Tahmi jewelry is an intriguing choice.
Left: Silver Woven Aster Collection. Pendant, $100. Bracelet, $123. Earrings, $45. Also available in gold.
October Jewelry Sale at Brooke Pottery 6-9 pm during Thursdays on Kentucky! Buy one jewelry item and get one jewelry item 50% off. Also in October, 5% of our jewelry sales will be donated to Komen for the Cure. October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, so Think Pink!
One intrepid weaver is the source behind Tahmi Jewelry. Iowa artist Tahmi DeSchepper is inspired by ancient textiles and weaving techniques.
Tahmi DeSchepper in her studio
I don’t have any formal art or jewelry training. My degree work was in the area of ancient history, which is probably why I’m drawn to the more ancient and medieval jewelry making techniques. If it can’t be done with simple tools, you won’t find it in my jewelry. Everything I do is based on “cold” working – simple bending of wire either with pliers or with brute force. I don’t use any soldering, melting, smelting or anything that involves heat or fire with my metalworking. (Since I have a tendency to burn my fingers while making toast this is probably a very good idea!). I even consider my glasswork as done cold. The glass goes into the kiln at room temp, ramps up to fusing temperatures, then comes back out of the kiln at room temp – much safer for me than flameworking!
I relish the challenge of figuring out how to replicate textile techniques with wire. Some experiments work, and some don’t. But even the ones that don’t work yield interesting insights to base the next experiments on. So the moral of the story is to keep on trying!
