Mariambibi Khan: Lace Flower Ring

The aim of my first assignment is to create a high end contemporary piece. The techniques and workmanship put into a strip of metal bobbin lace, fall as contemporary. Therefore, as advised by my supervisor and co-supervisor, the use of the hydrangea’s are unnecessary. I was advised to focus on the simple 3 dimensional forms the lace could transform into instead of the interpretation of the hydrangea itself. The bobbin lace technique allows for the representation of the hydrangea sufficiently, therefore a literal interpretation is unnecessary. However, instead of setting it aside completely, I decided to incorporate it in the high end commercial piece, which will be discussed in my next post.

Mariambibi Khan, 2015. Ring Concept 1. Pencil Sketch.

I played with the rounded wire frame and manipulated the lace matrix to form a donut shape, however I turned the ends out at the center, to cover up the harsh line of the frame. In its own form it looked like a flower.

Mariambibi Khan. 2015. Flower lace 1. Fine Silver

Once this shape was created, it held enough complexity to stand as a simple ring, however I felt that it was too simple, so I incorporate the two together in one ring.

Mariambibi Khan, 2015. Ring Concept 2. Pencil Sketch.

Mariambibi Khan, 2015. Ring Concept 3. Pencil Sketch.

Mariambibi Khan, 2015. Ring Concept 4. Pencil Sketch.

Mariambibi Khan. 2015. Flower lace 1 & 2 with metal hydrangea. Fine Silver

Mariambibi Khan. 2015. Flower lace 1 & 2 in ring form. Fine Silver

Mariambibi Khan. 2015. Flower lace 1 & 2 in ring form on hand. Fine Silver

The shank will be twisted to incorporate the feel of lace wire and to eliminate the harsh lines of a normal shank. I have soldered the lace flower to the shank by soldering. I added a wire connecting the flower to the shank for extra support.

Mariambibi Khan. 2015. Flower lace 1 & 2 in ring form. Fine Silver

Mariambibi Khan. 2015. Flower lace 1 & 2 in ring form with wire support. Fine Silver

Once everything was solder together to form the complete ring, I polished the shank and left the lace white.

Mariambibi Khan. 2015. Flower lace ring. Fine Silver

Below are the Rhino Cad screenshots of the ring. Timothy Bull assisted in showing me how to create the ring on CAD. I do not have the rendering tool therefore I could not render my ring. I have added the image of Timothy Bull's CAD Rendering.