6.9 x 3.5 x 0.4 cm, 0.21 oz each
7.22 ct Tension Set Garnet Spheres, Low Tarnish Sterling Silver, Stainless Steel, Niobium Ear Wires
Red garnet spheres glow in the light as the light shines through the front and back of the earrings. The ear wires are hypoallergenic niobium. The low tarnish sterling silver alloy remains a silver colored longer than the familiar and traditional sterling silver alloy, minimizing the need to polish the earrings.
The design is named after its inspiration: a radiolarian in the 1862 publication of microscopic sea creatures by Ernst Haeckel, appropriately titled “Art Forms in Nature’. To accommodate stones, I modified the creature as I redrew the Collosphaera Huxleyii Müller by hand. I digitized the drawing, modified it again in CAD and sent the design to a laser cutter where it was cut in 30 gauge low tarnish sterling silver. I textured, burnished and hand finished each stone setting by hand. Burnishing both sides of the metal ‘setting’ increases the light bouncing through the stones.
Learn more about how these earrings are created by watching the short video