A Bracelet Inspired By…?

Hi friends,

It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted here.
I’ve been abroad for a long time,
and I was “absorbing”  the surroundings…

More than that – I think posts about
“How wonderful is my life” are boring.
That is why I spared you the stories about Zurich and Madrid,
where I ‘ve spent 6 months in each of these cities.

Unless -
a place I’ve visited, influenced on my jewels,
which is the case here: This is a homage to SPAIN!
To be more accurate –
This is homage to the Mudejar art of Spain.

This is homage to the Mudejar art of Spain.

Wall tiling of Mudejar style.

Mudéjar style is a fusion between Islamic and Christian traditions.
It was created by Muslim craftsman,
who kept living in areas the Christians had reconquered
from the Moors, from the 12th century on.
They were hired by the Christians to build churches and palaces.
The result was specific and wonderful fusion between Islamic and Christian imagery.
I was especially impressed from the Mudejar  ceiling carpentry.

Mudéjar wooden ceiling in the cloister
of the Monastery of San Juan de los Reyes, Toledo, Spain

Different angle of the same place,
shows the amazing fusion of
Muslim and Christian imagery.

So, what has all this to do with my jewels???

My latest collection is geometric.
4 of my previous posts discussed it.
(“Geometrical Jewelry? Me???”)

https://www.etsy.com/listing/254822791/

This is a bracelet I’ve designed in this collection.
In fact it is not a rectangular which has 4 points.
It is a polygon, with 8 pionts.
The new bracelet, is combined of 3 pieces.
It is multi-layered, and has 24 points.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/490228765/

Well , I think the cliché about
”getting inspiration from everything around you”
is implemented here:

I was inspired by the amazing
Mudejar art I’ve seen in Spain!

Can you see the resemblance?

Last but surely not least –

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Vita

Jewelry and

                                               

Sentiment

“Could you make something with Lucy’s silverware?”
Asked my beloved cousin, Claire.

I was glad to fulfil her wish!
There were six teaspoons, much older than me,
(about 95 years old), waiting for their new “life”.

  










                                                                                                                                                                                      

 A Jewel with sentiment is worth a lot!

(Mostly, the sentiment is what we love about it,
more than its appearance or its value…)

My aunt Lucy, had a typical story
of an emigrant to the U.S.
Lucy Korn was born in 1898,
in a small town, Tismenitza, located
in Galizia, which was Poland at that time.
(The town was destroyed during the second World War).
Unlike most Jewish girls,
she graduated high school, and
very soon realized that she “had no future”.
Being the second daughter in a traditional family,
she could marry only after her older sister.
Her sister was infected by tuberculosis,
so she could not get married.
Lucy decided to look for a husband
in the place where “gold is found in the streets”…

22 year old brave Lucy arrived all alone
at Ellis Island, in 1920.

Ellis Island In 1920s.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Ellis Island in 1920s.

Her first place in the States was the city of New York:

New York Street in 1920s.

Soon she found him (not the gold…).
She got married to Morris Bloom in 1922,
and they settled in Hartford, Connecticut,
for the rest of their lives.

The rushed marriage did not last long,
and after they already had two children they got divorced.
Morris re-married, while Lucy raised and
supported the children by working as a seamstress.

When I was working with the teaspoons, I thought a lot about her
and spoke to my American family:
Her son, Bernie, remembers her as a harsh and
bossy person, who was a very devoted mother,
but never showed  love towards them.
“If only she had kissed me once…”, said Rosalind, her daughter,
soon after Lucy had passed away…
Being a professional psychologist, (Prof. Bernard Bloom),
92 years old Bernie, explains this harshness
as a post-traumatic behavior:
She had lost all her family in the war!
Carrying this heavy loss,
and having a sense of guilt for surviving,
while never expressing it during her life time.

Grandma Lucy

Other people, including my Israeli family
remember her great sense of humor,
her wit, and her being outspoken
(which was sometimes tactless…)
For me, as a young girl, Lucy was
“THE AUNT  from America”.

Me with Mutzy, at the time I first met Aunt Lucy.

(This is me with Mutzy, at the time I first met Aunt Lucy.)

She helped our family during the Israeli
recession of the 1950’s:
I remember her packages with the
second-hand weird clothes,
the real Ness-Cafe and the milk powder,
the Bubble-Gum!!! Oh, that was great!
The “Philco “–
 the first refrigerator in our neighborhood…

Lucy and me, Israel, 1962.

(Lucy and me, Israel, 1962.)

Finally, and with all these thoughts, 
my mission was accomplished.

Here is the outcome - 

6 rings for Lucy’s granddaughters and
great granddaughters:

Enjoy and comment below.

See you soon,

Vita

My welcome post

 

Hi there!

Rachel, a beloved Israeli poet,
wrote some 80 years ago:
 “All I know is  to tell about myself;
 My world is narrow like the world of an ant…”
 (Free  translation).

Like Rachel, I am going to write about my world…
in which jewelry has an important role.

My blog will not be a “Curriculum Vita(e)”
(although it is called after me… joking!).

I would like  to share with you

 my knowledge, collected over long years

 of jewelry making and selling,

as well as  some of my reflections

 about my work process,

my sources of inspiration and my messages

through the jewels I make.
 

 I would like to share with you some basics,

some “Grand Ma advice". (As of now, I have 12 grandchildren…)

The idiom “Grandma Advice” refers

 to old fashioned and not harmful

but not necessarily useful advice...

But as we all know, this popular wisdom

is the basis for alternative methods

 of  nutrition and healing.

With my practical  advice  I tend to join

 this trend of old wisdom.

I would like to share with you my tips about
 

"HOW TO RESTORE JEWELS".

In another serial of tips, I shall write about

"HOW TO CLEAN JEWELRY in
 a 'DO IT YOURSELF' methods".

 

I would like to illuminate the somewhat
 
mysterious subject of

"HOW TO REPAIR JEWELS".

 

and - 

"WHAT LOOKS BEST ON YOU",

 and about -

my designing  adventures,

my sources of inspiration,

 and some more subjects, like Art ,

( which is my second occupation) .
 

And subjects,  which will  surprise you and maybe also me…

In the meantime, please, visit my shop,

 imagine getting a cup of coffee (de-caff..)

and keep tuned,as I am going to tel,

 some stories about what you will see there:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/jewelrybyvita

 

Vita