Naura...A Dragons Fire..sold

Naura (A Dragon’s FireScale)

Usually when making a piece in sterling, Jewelers tend to avoid an outcome called fire scale. In sterling silver, fire scale is created when too much heat causes oxygen to mix with the copper that is alloyed with the fine silver. This causes a red or purple stain. However, when working in copper or brass, it is simply beautiful and forms a range of colours. I thought that I’d play on words here, for the dragon series, and use my fire as a paintbrush, colouring Brass and Copper chains to represent the iridescent ‘fire scales’ of a dragon. Technically, without silver, this is a fire-oxidizing patina, but I love firescale and I can’t resist a jeweler’s pun. Of course the firescale doesn’t show up well in pictures. However, the closer view of the chains may help you see what I mean.

So here is a piece called Naura: a multi stranded necklace painted by fire scale.

It is a 19 inch 8 strand necklace containing:
Sterling Silver Antiquated Chain

Handmade Copper Hook Clasp

Hand Assembled Red Brass Chain With Copper Links

The width of the chains together spreads to about an inch.

Naura has found a home other than mine. It will be missed.