there’s nothing like an intriguing shop door that attracts shoppers. Inside the green door, Sara Rowland’s Spring and Summer Collection of fine jewellery features light, muted colours, crystals and filigree. To coax a piece of copper wire using the finest of crochet hooks into necklaces and bracelets takes a light but confident touch and a keen eye for form and function. Having spent the long winter evenings crocheting wire as small as 0.1mm, the hardest part of Sara’s art is being unable to undo a mistake.
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For those who love to crochet, make a mistake and you can just undo everything. But unlike cotton or silk, a fine wire will invariably knot, kink or break. It takes ingenuity and It’s the wire that Sara finds most challenging and rewarding.
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“I love the way the stitches appear in wire, so much more intricate than you ever would notice in thread crochet,” Sara explains. “Because wire is rather stiff, obviously, the best necklaces are those that sit closer to the collar bone, with a pendant dropping from there to the cleavage. Longer chains tend not to lay down neatly over the doll, although you can bend and coax the shape gently. One exception is a rope necklace, which is intended to be chunkier, worn long and loose.”