The process of fabricating textured, pear shaped jewelry

I have cut pear shaped copper blanks and textured & shaped employing different techniques: anticlastinc & synclastic forming, texturing with hammers, dimpling with pliers etc. Finally I have decided to continue with a grooved hammered textured surface combined with synclastic shaping.

To test my decision I have cut pear shaped silver blanks and textured and shaped as described above. Using jumprings I have assembled them into two prototype earrings. To the left one I've added domes and pearls

My next step was to use these techniques to fabricate a pair of gold earrings. But I felt it was not safe enough to use unsoldered jumprings for linking the components. So instead I have used wire wrapping methods to create the same look

A close up of the earring

I have fabricated a matching pendant from one big textured & shaped element