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.
Explanation:
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. The pendant is attached to forty black silk threads. Concrete poetry, according to the jury. It is not just her imagery – the jury praises the great craftsmanship with which all segments of this pendant have been made. “In this pendant Dubbeldam immortalizes mortality”.
