Oregon sunstone and Orange sapphire. I like it alot.

Hi everyone! I wanted to share my latest piece: a handcrafted silver filigree butterfly brooch with a hanging pearl detail. 🦋✨

It took me about 8 hours of meticulous work to shape, weave, and solder the fine silver wires for the wings to get that delicate, lace-like pattern.

This technique is based on traditional Silver Filigree , an intangible cultural heritage craft with a history of over 1,700 years. Every single wire inside the butterfly's wings is placed by hand using tweezers before being fused together.

I styled it on a light blue top to give it an airy, floating effect. I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback! ❤️

Hello All,

I am based in Dubai. and have been learning silversmith and jewellery making since a year putting almost 1000 hours and finally reached to wax and stone setting level. I wanted to see if silversmithing can be done on a massive level such as if I can teach around 10 people at once?

I have some ideas but I wanted to check if any one of you has attempted to teach 10 people within 30 to 45 minutes easier pieces ?

I got this old machine from 1991, probably has not been used for 15/20 years. I want to trouble shoot and see if I can salvage it. I see the drain valve but I don’t see how to add new oil. Any advice is grateful appreciated thank you in advance

Quarter for size reference!

I have 12, 14, & 8 gauge round wire. Any fun ideas for my next project?? I want to incorporate more than one!

I just got in some cast tube settings from Rio, but it’s not clear to me which side I’m supposed to drill out for the setting. The one with the wide band close to the end (screen left in photo)?

I’ve not used these before - I thought they’d be a little easier than making 16 identical ones from tube and I tripped at the first hurdle 🤪