However, it is best to keep in mind that the button clasp mechanism can pull apart under a certain amount of force. Button clasps can also be quite decorative and add a fun and unexpected element to an otherwise simple piece of jewelry. They can be effortlessly fastened with one or two hands and are appropriate closures for any jewelry type. As the name suggests, a button snap clasp is a fastening that utilizes a button cap with a stud that snaps into a button socket.īutton snaps are another clasp that affords extreme ease of use.
Button Snap Claspsīutton snap clasps have only recently become more popular in jewelry-making. Interlocking clasps make a good closure for heavy necklaces because the weight of the necklace helps to keep the fastening in place. The c-shaped piece then hooks or locks into the corresponding piece. The clasp is circular with a small opening on the side, much like the shape of the letter C. The interlocking clasp consists of a c-shaped piece and a corresponding identical piece or jump rings. Interlocking clasps, also called C clasps, are fastening mechanisms that interlock with one another without utilizing a closing mechanism. It is good to become familiar with the various types of clasps and toggles and their uses whether you are new to jewelry-making or simply looking to expand your jewelry-making expertise. Jewelry findings are the components, except beads, used in beaded jewelry-making to finish a piece of jewelry. Although they are often overlooked, the findings you decide to use will ultimately impact the longevity and wearability of your piece. One aspect of jewelry-making that usually falls to the wayside is the type of closure or clasps you will use to finish your piece. This space becomes a travel log of flaneur-ship, rag picking and wandering to create space for constellations.įor thinking about our settings and findings.Jewelry-making involves a lot of fun and creative thinking, from the color to the style to the size of the piece you are creating. It’s a test site for not just myself but to share with others to explore and expand horizons of who we look at, how we look at and what and who we look with. This space will become a visual for showing what I am looking at, where I have been, where I am going, but more importantly opens a place to offer others to develop concepts, to share thoughts, movements and directions. As I move through a PhD in Craft between Konstfack and HDK Valand in Sweden. I have generously been offered this space to function as a visual journal.
I am a sucker for the metaphors of craft. The energy of finding something new or finding something once thought lost. Findings also can be taken as a term for discovery. Findings in a jeweler’s sense is a collection of elements used to hold together or combine elements. It is the scenography, the space around where something occurs. It is also a reference to the setting of a stone in a ring, to hold something precious or to question what is worth holding onto. A table that makers are able to expand, take apart, refurbish, repurpose or make a completely different table. To others it conjures a table setting which can mean adding a seat at the table. As some jewelers or anyone who has ordered from a jewelry supply store the “settings and findings” tabs are familiar.
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