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My jewelry combines micro macramé knotting, Cavandoli knotting, double half-hitching, kumihimo, braiding, cord making and crochet of silk and nylon threads, using as many as 500 knots per square inch. As I was trained as a silversmith, I often use soldered wire armature and fabricate some of the clasps for one of a kind pieces. Many of my pieces are designed using semiprecious gemstones circular, rectangles or squares shapes, and beads with the knotting of silk and nylon thread.
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While some of my pieces are one of a kind, labor of love involving many hours of design and execution. Others may have just five to ten knots, a zen statement, distilled to its essence like a haiku, yet still containing a signature.
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I have been making jewelry out of thread and cord my whole life. At first, I sold my work wholesale to stores and galleries, then mostly at craft fairs. I also started teaching as well. The constant throughout has been thread and cord, so when the supply of bonded nylon cord got threatened, I had to step in the breach. I found a small company producing bonded nylon and opened an online store for my students and became an online ambassador helping ensure future supplies of cord and thread I like to work with. My online store opened in January 2006. It has since grown, and now includes a large selection of supplies and kits I have designed and created for DIYselfers and other professional artists. So now in addition to selling thread and cord online, I takes time to “play”, designing jewelry and developing new kits.
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Come by my booth at the Chico ART Festival, May 10 & 11, 2024. Or connect with my website or Facebook.
In addition I am also part of the Chico ART Festival team. That’s the small group who volunteers to make the festival possible. I have served as ChiVAA’s web designer and I have built this website from the ground up on a WordPress platform. This last couple of years I have also been by default the social media liaison. I hope we find a volunteer to take over that task next year!