Filigree - Wire Jewelry Collection

India has a a rich culture of jewels and jewelry, most of them in form of Gold Jewelry, Silver Jewelry and Meenakari. And apart from these forms, we love Bollywood kinda jewelry, very colorful and bright. We hate dull colors. That's reflected in our home decor to a typical Indian Bride's traditional outfit. Where as if you create wire jewelry, it neither involve the perfect and kinda typical Indian designs nor they are much glittery.

Aishwarya Rai Bacchan wearing traditional Indian Jewelry

Art of Using Color Wheel for Designing Jewelry - 2

Learning about colors is a beautiful journey. When you are able to use Color Wheel Magic, it can help you to create spectacular results while designing bead jewelry. In my previous post Art of Using Color Wheel for Designing Jewelry - 1, we talked about first four basic color combinations/ schemes of using colors. As promised here is remaining two basic color schemes I find interesting.

Basic color wheel

Art of using Color Wheel for designing jewelry - 1

I usually buy beads without any further planning, unless it is about a customized design. And as a result I end up buying bright shades of blue. I don't know why but I fall for blue beads at first site. And it leads me to end up designing so many blue pieces as said in my post The blue magic. If you are facing the same issue, here is the solution. On a boring night, I started exploring about bead manufacturing and that guided me to use of dyes and inorganic colors and from there I stopped on the funda of Color Wheel. Yes, the same, we might have studied in school - Color Wheel by Sir Issac Newton. And yes, you are right, it is no more science for me now, but a tool for color combinations in my jewelry designs.

Basic color wheel

Spring Collection - Holi Essentials

In India, we have festivals for every season. For spring we have - Holi, also known as "Basant Utsav" meaning "Spring Festival". The festival has many purposes, but most prominently, it celebrates the beginning of Spring. In 17th century literature, it was identified as a festival that celebrated agriculture, spring harvests and the fertile land. Hindus believe it is a time of enjoying spring's abundant colours and saying farewell to winter. So do I! Saying good bye to winter..

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