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Editor’s Picks
Silver & Gold
These precious metals have been part of the lexicon of jewelers since humans mastered blacksmithing, thousands of years ago.
RAPHAEL SANZIO PENDANT
by Roberta and David Williamson.
Features and Departments
Carl and Irene Clark Volume 44.1
Patrick R. Benesh-Liu describes the superbly intricate micromosaic jewelry of this Navajo couple.
Armenian Lace Volume 44.1
Janyak, or Armenian needle lace, is the subject of a small exhibition at the Fowler Museum at UCLA.
Prescott Trading Post and Bead Museum Volume 44.1
Robert K. Liu describes how Thomas Stricker fulfilled a lifelong dream of opening a bead museum and trading post, to display perhaps the largest extant bead collection and related artifacts, especially from Northwest Africa.
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Wearable Artists
As the 60s and 70s, the heyday of wearable art as a new medium, fade into the past, contemporary wearable art has become more refined, minimalistic, and influenced by fashion. This divergence has seen some of the spiritual successors to wearable art branch off into popular culture, such as Burning Man, cosplay, and fursuiting.
JACKET by K. Riley, of hand-carved blockprinted fabric, 2019.
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We revisit the mesmerizing jewelry of Mary Lee Hu by the late Carolyn L.E. Benesh. Carolyn had a personal appreciation of Hu’s meticulous work, and in this article, she offers a paean to beauty, accomplished and mighty, through Hu’s own journey of teaching and innovating.