Hardware Artwear jewelry is created using components that were designed, in their use, to be hidden from our eyes.
Hardware components like metal washers and nuts, resistors and capacitors used in electronics, and the tiny brass valve stems and springs found in disposable lighters, are all up- cycled into something unique and beautiful.
As raw materials, these components are used in ways that they were not originally meant, or designed to be used.
A metal washer is drilled or cut and covered in the pattern of a peacock feather and suddenly it becomes a thing of beauty and color.