Square dotty charms and squiggle link earrings

Hand crafted copper earrings featuring square hand crafted charms with a spotty texture, each hanging from earwires with an integral feature squiggle link.

The square charms have been hand made from copper clay, impressed with a dotty texture, fired and polished and antiqued to form the pattern.

Copper clay is a clay like medium made from tiny particles of copper (other metals are available too), combined with an organic binder and made into a pliable clay or paste with water. After working with the clay-like medium to form the article, it is thoroughly dried to remove all of the water, the shape is then further refined and then fired at high temperature to both burn off the binders and to cause the copper particles to fuse together as solid metal. Whilst the medium makes it possible to achieve things not possible with other metal forms, it is still quite time-consuming and there are several stages to achieving a nice finish.

The earrings drop 40mm (1.6") overall from the top of the oval earwires and hang 14mm (0.55") wide in wear. The piercing end of the earwire has been rounded and polished for your comfort.