The assignment
Its starting point are historical ornaments which are part of traditional costumes. This year jewellery designers are invited to select a traditional ornament from a costume tradition and come up with a new form and/or application for it.

The 5 winners

> the student prize:	This prize was awarded to Claudia Schmedding from Germany, a student at the Düsseldorf academy. Her entry is called Seiltänzerin, tightrope dancer. Her starting point was the rich traditional costume of German farmers’ wives... continue
> Christina Karababa:	Christina Karababa from Greece went to work on a 19th century gilded-silver double clasp from the collection of the National Historic Museum in Athens. The original clasps are decorated with detailed and complex floral patterns in engraving, granulating and casting techniques... continue
> Sabine Lang:	German jewellery artist Sabine Lang has provided her entry with a poetic motto: “Against vanishing into thin air” – “Schmuck gegen das sich in Luft auflösen alter Traditionen”. She breathes new life into the disappearing costume of farmers’ wives in the German North Frisian isle of Föhr... continue
> Carla Nuis:	The increasingly personal interpretation of coping with the death of a loved one is also reflected in the work of jewellery designers. Mourning jewellery is as old as mankind and working on a comeback. “Necklace in C Amorphous” is a creation of Carla Nuis. This year she scored with another necklace made by her which won her the Dutch Design Award for Free Design and Fashion. “Necklace in C Amorphous” is made of compact charcoal beads... continue
> Joke Dubbeldam:	The second prize-winning mourning ornament was made by Joke Dubbeldam: a pendant with two “faces”. One side is made of corroded steel with a pattern, cut in openwork, of died back honeysuckle. This part is connected to its counterpart by means of a crisscross of riveted, small silver rods; blackened steel with a silver inlay in a pattern of flowering honeysuckle... continue

The 2006 NTJ exhibition in the Arnhem Openlucht Museum
will be on show until 30 January 2008.
It will subsequently move to Museum De Koperen Knop.
Binnendams 6
3373 AD Hardinxveld-Giessendam
tel.+31 (0)184 -61 13 66
www.koperenknop.nl

> presentation 2006