Featured Artist – Narrina

I got started with jewelry making when I was six and my parents and grandparents both gave me beads one year as a Christmas gift. I wasn’t very good, it was really just me messing around having fun with beads.  Every year for my birthday or for Christmas my parents tried to find me a some sort of hobby or craft and none of them would stick.  Eventually they got me a book on jewelry making as that seemed like the only hobby I had any interest in.  So I tried some of the bead weaving patterns, but I quickly found out that thread hates me, and actually the feeling was mutual.   However, that same book also had a very basic bead-and-wire pattern.  I tired it and soon found out I really enjoy wire . Wanting to find more patterns for wire jewelry I did a search for it online and, heh heh, I stumbled across a pattern for a simple European 4-1 bracelet.  I was hooked, I had caught the very contagious and incurable chainmaille bug and the more chainmaille I saw online the worse the bug got.

I’ve now been making chainmaille for four years and my love of wire has lead me to try just about any kind of wire-jewelry I can find.  My wire-work skills have now expanded from just bead-and-wire and chainmaille to include: Viking knit, wire-wrapping, and wire weaving. I hope in the near future to be able to start learning some metalsmithing and filigree and be able to combine these techniques with the ones I already know.

Examples of work old and new:

Metalwork Gallery
TraditionalDigital Art Gallery
MailleMarket Shop
Artfire Shop

Tags: chainmaille

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