Coyote selling overseas...

For all those who wish to buy Coyote silver jewels and don't live in India..

CR 118 - silver earrings

CR 224 - gold plated silver finger ring

You may buy it now on Jypore. Jypore is doing an event where they are selling Coyote designs for a period of 30 days. The names given to the designs were chosen by the team, while I was not reachable. So some may not be actual..but the designs are 100% Coyote!

Some cool detail shots are up on their site..

detail of CR 213 gold plated silver earrings

detail of CY 5 silver earrings

detail of CN 54 gold plated silver earrings

detail of CY 2 gold plated silver earrings with garnets

detail of CR 81 gold plated silver 'karchiyaan - kaan k zewar' earrings 

detail of CR 215 gold plated silver earrings

detail of CY 85 silver earrings

detail of CY 8 gold plated silver earrings with green onyx and coral

Happy shopping!

Image courtesy (for this post): Jypore.com

Bartan by Coyote ....2

The SALE was fabulous! Would love to thank The Shop, Sandhya Gorthi and the whole team at the store.


The response to both the new collections was amazing! Great feedbacks too... So I thought of sharing some more pictures from the 'bartan' series here.

karchiyaan - kaan k zewar (earrings)

tawa - kapde ka zewar (brooch)

You have seen the above two designs.. Some more below..

karchiyaan - kapde ke zewar (set of 3 pins - brooch)

pateeliyaan - kapde vah gale ka zewar (brooch cum pendant)

pateeli - haath ka zewar (double finger ring)

After seeing this collection 'bartan'... many freinds and strangers came and shared their childhood stories and stories of how they played with their friends. I wanted to make this series forever... because of my happy memories attached to it. I guess the feeling was very honest and rubbed off on a lot of people who saw it. It evoked nostalgia...


Have one more good news to share! I shall soon be holding an online Sale for those far away from Mumbai. So make space in your calendars for next week! Shall announce the dates soon!


Will be adding the pictures of the second collection very very soon! Also have some more great news lined up... wait on..


Have an energetic monday!

this one or that one... for the SALE

I am holding a SALE  of my designs, old as well as new, in Mumbai. It is in a fabulous lifestyle store called The Shop in Pali in Bandra.


For the SALE I have made three e-invites. I have sort of made up my mind as to which one I like. But can always use a few more votes/suggestions. 


Which one do you like out of these..

invite 1.

The invite above has one of my favourite pieces.. the 'Jai Mata Di' brooch and CN 107 - stiletto earrings.

invite 2.

Invite no 2 has CP4 - the repousse brooch I had earlier posted. And a ring from my 'Paanch Rupaiyya' collection, in which all the coins are removable and usable without being damaged.

invite 3.

This invite has a pendant with turquoise made by me during my industrial training and CY 81 earrings.


The last one does not have very clear shots I feel. And my favourite is no 1. Which invite would you answer to?


The SALE is from 22nd to 28th of July. 11-9 on weekdays and 12-9 on Sunday. I shall also unveil 2 new collection on the 22nd of July at The Shop. These shall stay on display till the 4th of August. (Will post images from the two new collections very soon).


Happy shopping in the SALE! And I'll be seeing you there..

old me vs/ the new me...

Old me was great! The me in middle was a little low. And the me now is like never before!


When I did a post on my industrial trainings' learnings and makings and explorations... I got a few ideas. Imagine... getting ideas from ideas!


So using two ideas from the last post of industrial training (read the text below these images in the earlier/linked post to get the point)...

'un-holed' blue ball exploration

textured golf ball with stamps behind

I made a these two..

Blue ball double finger ring - CR 87

Blue ball double finger ring - CR 87

Golf ball pendant/brooch - CR 

Golf ball pendant/brooch with stamps behind - CR 88

Have an easy easy week ahead!

ring -a -ring -a roses...

I love rings! And have a very-almost enviable personal collection of some 40 odd silver rings.


Sharing pictures of some rings, not all, that I made with a very generous heart (a complete lie!!) to sell...


Silver.....

with amethyst

with spice topaz

guy ring - made for my boyfriend that time

with citrine

Stones and silver.....

amethyst shivlinga

cz topaz onyx

onyxes

 Silver gold plated.....

with (now extinct) rice pearls and baroque pearl

with peridots

inspired by lotus - love the shank!

inspired by lotus - shank of this one is the shape of the top of the above ring

had to! had to! add these.....

Got any interesting silver rings you love?! If you share yours... I'll share them here along with my personal ones... mail me!


happy finger-ring!

industrial design.... exploring on

I started the other way around. Put the final products in the 1st post, trials in the 2nd and the ones I love the most... explorations and experiments... for this one! 


As soon as I got my brief, I reached Amrapali's export factory called 'Rajiv Arora'. Later they opened up another factory right besides the export one and its called 'Amrapali'. This one is for the local market's production. But nothing beats the charm of 'Rajiv Arora' factory! 

the 'un-holed' ball

Although I had worked briefly with silver and other metals before then, at the institute, this was completely new! There were 3 girls in the design department. They kept on telling me things... possibilities and the impossibles. The first thing thrown at me was... You cant make complete ball of silver! It may burst... so you have to puncture it and the go about your work. Now that was a challenge for me... and the result was the piece in the picture above. Holes were made later and stones were set into it. But there was an 'un-holed' ball 1st!

the jaali ball

Next statement was... You can never set stones before the soldering! It always has to be after. This one required some thinking and some bit of researching about properties of various stones. The result was a jaali ball with a stone inside it (picture above).

golf-ish ball

As I started playing with stones and silver, I was told... To set 2mm stones (in flush setting) the silver sheet has to be of at least 21-22 gauge. No less will do. The tone of 2 gurls in particular was challenging in an unfathomable way or so I thought. For the rest of it I'll say, I always have been the questioning kinds. I feel very strongly that... every-bloody-problem has a loophole! I explored stamping around the same time. And the result (answer) was 23 gauge silver sheet with 2mm stones in flush setting (with stamps behind the stones)... This idea is brilliantly relevant today! thanks to the soaring silver prices. Its 51.50/- INR per gram as I type.

silver coin with copper stamps (and the black marks)

My first brush with stamping (picture above). They dint poke me after that or maybe I was too excited about newness around to notice. I felt like a little girl (with a sweet tooth... that I really have!) left alone in a candy store...

Tried to make the above piece look as if the stone was tearing up on to the surface. Failed miserably at that! But I created this crushed foil like texture with my own hands and soldered it on to another thin flat sheet for strength. So no casting or repousse was employed. 

pendant - settings etc.

double sided pendant - exploring curves

ring - gold plated copper inlayed (not really)/ tricked in to silver

double finger ring

Fished out this stone during a market visit that time. Freaked out at the brightness of pink. Many of these were made by me... not all the way to the end but a lot of processes. I fell in love with these pieces so much that I offered them to keep my remuneration and let me take these pieces back. They took it. And a 'Happy Ending' it was...