Hey all, I haven’t left you hanging, just been focusing on some other “behind the scenes” aspects of JewelryMonk, planning on some growth, but I am checking in today with a quick little tip for you.
I have used patterned rollers in my rolling mill to get different textures in metal, and I have seen people use things like cloth, leaves, and other things to texture metal. Here is a quick example of how I made an impression in a piece of copper with textured wallpaper.
I apologize for not having all the images of the textured wallpaper pieces that I used, but I picked them up for free as samples at a wallpaper store. There are many shapes and textures to play with. What I did was cut out a leaf shape from one of the samples and rolled the softened copper down about 20% or so. That left the impression in the copper and I cut out the shape with a Saw Frame
I know it was a quick tip, but it is pretty neat and I thought I would try to spur up some imagination in you today, I hope I did.
As always, thanks for following along this journey.
Now go make your impression on the world.
Doug
Nice! I’ll have to keep that in mind. My favorite material to run through the rolling mill is sandpaper with shapes cut out of it. Novelty hole punches with shapes like leaves or stars or flowers can be interesting to use with any type of paper as well.
Cool Jen. Need to see some of your work.
Well, here are some things from a blog I’m keeping of my student work. I made a pendant with some silver I roll printed with a piece of embroidery fabric (or maybe it’s called cross stitch fabric, not sure): http://jensworksinprogress.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/squaresville-daddio/
And here are some very early experiments, with a sandpaper-patterned ring that came out well: http://jensworksinprogress.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/victory-is-mine/
Good looking stuff.
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