The brooch thread

[Bluegemz]

when I was in Czech republic, I saw real Bohemian garnets in a museum. They made me drop my camera. The glow! These old, poorly cut spessartites (they were spessartites, not pyropes), in a primitive brooch, had incredible color and glow. So I was looking for an old brooch and found in in an antique store. It has pyropes and is nothing like old stones in the museum's, but it glows, too. Not just sparkles like modern items do. It is antique.

I LOVE it! Beautiful, like the plump, glowing crispness of pomegranate seeds! These antique garnet brooches sparkle and glow in such a unique way. There is really nothing else like them.

The one antique garnet brooch I have has spessartites, rhodelites and pyropes all in one! They all blend together until one holds it to the light! The earrings which were purchased to go with it are all pyropes and have a deep red glow to them. I always have the name 'dark star' come to mind when I see them.

 

[Bluegemz]

I’ve gotten more into brooches now. I bought a costume jewelry beatle brooch which is just so fun, which lead to a faster growing appreciation of the brooch. This is my newest addition... an aquamarine with gold leaves and a crescent of diamonds ...the flower was carved by the jeweler from a large crystal which they had. I really was drawn to the contrasts in it, symetry holding organic forms, abstraction and realism, simplicity/modernism with an exuberant, natural subject/form.
Any other brooches that you are wearing Or are inspired by?

 

[Bluegemz]

And here is an inspiration brooch, a Buccellati aqua flower brooch... swoon!!!!

 

[PawnShopHustler]

 

[Tarquin]

My firebird brooch.

 

[voce]

My firebird brooch.

Love the artistry and the detailing of the gold with mission and texture!

 

[Catmom]

My firebird brooch.

I love it!

 

[Bluegemz]

Really lovely!

 

[voce]

Love the artistry and the detailing of the gold with mission and texture!

LOL my phone turned millgrain into mission

 

[LemonMoonLex]

LOL my phone turned millgrain into mission

Oh gosh, I was actually about to reply and ask you what that meant and explain that I have never heard of that word being used in such a way. I was so sure that it wasnt a grammagical error but that there was some sort of jewelry making technique that was called "mission"-ing hahahaha

 

[voce]

Oh gosh, I was actually about to reply and ask you what that meant and explain that I have never heard of that word being used in such a way. I was so sure that it wasnt a grammagical error but that there was some sort of jewelry making technique that was called "mission"-ing hahahaha

I have impeccable spelling, and it's only when I use my phone and it thinks it can improve my language by replacing all the words it doesn't know that I confused people.

 

[Catmom]

Thought I'd resurrect in case there are any other new ones to add. My latest two, a ruby and diamond frog and lizard. Anyone else?

 

[Sky56]

My mother’s beautiful gold and enamel Art Nouveau pin, I inherited it. I think it’s supposed to be Cleopatra.The enamel work of her skin is amazing, so well done it looks like real skin, it glows from within.