JCK - Meet Textile Designer Turned Jewelery Artist Brooke Gregson

Jan 2019. "Brooke Gregson builds on her background in textiles to weave together a colleciton of varying dynamic colors, cuts, and finishes" Read the article online here

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New York Times - Engraving that endures

Nov. 30, 2018. Article by Rachel Garrahan. “Engraving is one of the noblest art forms and it has been treasured ever since antiquity,” the jewelry historian Vivienne Becker said in a phone interview. The practice of carving a design into a hard material with a hand-held tool dates from the ancient Mesopotamians, who incised intricate motifs into cylindrical stone seals more than 5,000 years ago. In jewelry, early signet rings discovered in Egyptian tombs were inscribed with hieroglyphics and are believed to have been used like seals, too, for personal identification in official documents predating written language. Read the full article here

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