Azalea Flower Gold Vermeil Earrings

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A variation on a theme of my Azalea bud earrings, this one has a longer drop, I have used the stem of the Azalea to create the drop rather than coiling it around. The flower buds came from my garden and I created a mould from them and in turn earrings! Each pair comes out slightly differently to the next but I think that uniqueness adds to each pair!

Azalea flowers stand for love and gentleness!

There is a choice of gold vermeil or bright silver (please see the next listing). Gold vermeil is high carat gold (in this case 24 carat) thickly plated over fine or sterling silver. Gold vermeil is the French standard for plating over sterling silver, the plating is measured in microns and vermeil is 2.5 microns thick, so it has good durability!

The earrings are 4.6cm long from the top (1 3/4 inches) or the hook and the drop length is 3.3cm (1 1/4 inches) and the width is 1.2cm (just under 1/2 an inch).

The azalea buds are made from fine silver metal clay. Metal clay was first created by the Japanese back in 1990 in gold and then in turn silver, it is microscopic particles of silver mixed into a binder, it can be sculpted, textured, rolled etc. it is then fired whereupon the binder burns away and the particles fuse together or sinter into a metal piece.

I love metal clay and the textures that can be created on a piece but please note it is not like milled metal sheet which can be made very smooth and is often highly polished.

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