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Toscana Americana Workshops
presents
Contemporizing Traditional
Etruscan Jewelry:
The Art, Technique, and Design of
Bead Stringing and Bead Weaving
with Warren Feld
Cortona, Italy April 18-25, 2009
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Some of Warren's Original Pieces...
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About this workshop...
During the week, we will gradually develop an understanding of good jewelry design concepts. You will use these concepts to get a design-understanding of Etruscan jewelry. And you will use these concepts to begin to think about, plan and experiment with ideas for contemporizing Etruscan jewelry.
You will learn how to understand what “quality” means, when selecting and using glass, gemstone and metal beads and other jewelry clasps and findings. You will learn how to make choices among the many options of stringing materials. You will learn a little bit about buying tools. You will learn how color theories may be applied when using beads, rather than paints. You will learn to re-define a piece of jewelry in terms of its essential design elements – things you can manipulate within the piece. And finally, you will review 10 principles of jewelry design composition – that is, 10 rules for how to manipulate the elements within your piece.
We will be doing a lot of hands-on activity. Some of it will involve playing with and arranging beads on a bead board. And some of it will involve using bead stringing and bead weaving techniques to make bracelets or components which you can later finish off as bracelets or necklaces.
We will also be taking a day trip to Florence. In Florence, we will visit a local bead store, and glass bead-making studio. You will have the rest of the day to explore the city. I encourage you, sketch book in hand, to explore fashion jewelry on display in some of the fancy clothing and jewelry boutiques in town, and to visit one of the museums and view Etruscan and other Italian styles of jewelry.
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"Barcelona Necklace"
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"Blue Waterfall Necklace"
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"Split Chips with Briolette"
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"Classicism Necklace"
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"Russian Right Angle Weave Necklace"
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