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:
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. Eyecatcher is the monumental silver “breast-plate” consisting of various wrought chains which are pinned to the top part of the costume, just below the collarbones - monumental linked ornaments made of silver filigree, resembling a collection of chains of office, if anything.
The jury is captivated by Lang’s approach, relativistic as well as powerful. She made a replica of a breast-plate in a transparent vacuum-pressed synthetic material. In this way a contemporary lightweight breast-plate is created breathing the delicacy of soap bubbles, an airy artefact which may enhance any simple garment, be it a T-shirt or a “little black dress”.
With her “Against vanishing into thin air” Lang puts the breast-plate back into everyday life, the jury states.

Award notification during SIERAAD 2006:
Unfortunately Sabine Lang was absent.