3D printed jewellery with precious stones by Silvia Weidenbach

Silvia Weidenbach deservedly won Best New Design at the Goldsmiths’ Fair with her innovative jewellery, setting precious stones in feather-light 3D printed nylon to create brooches. they are quite large yet weigh hardly anything. Holding one is quite strange as it weighs little more than a ball of cotton wool. 
Granny’s Chips, below, plays with the idea of retrieving bits of old inherited stones to make something new and more relevant to today.

I’ve certainly a few bits and bobs from both of my grandmothers sitting forlorn in a little box.

These pearls below look as if they are nestling in some kind of vegetal skull.

Watch a short film with more of her pieces here.

Many thanks to Silvia for the photos above by Silvain Deleu.