The Fluted Collection

Figure 1- Nkabinde, M. (2019). Fluted Earrings.

Figure 2- Nkabinde, M., (2019). Silver Fluted Pendant.

This is a silver fluted collection, inspired by the Fluted Swaddle. For this pendant, I had used the concept of folding and interlaced technique from the Platinum(finalist) earrings I made. Which had a punched out pattern on them but for this collection I wanted the overall shape to dominate more and not have patterns to interfere with the design. Firstly I start by bending the small S- shapes before interlacing them together without soldering to create this three-dimensional form, which I then soldered the thick wire to make a pendant and I added copper hooks for the earrings.

The reason why I made this collection because I wanted to capture the simplicity and the cleanness of the edges you get in fashion garments. I also wanted to capture the different folds and curves you get in the fabric when it is used as a headwrap.