Organic Jewellery

Organic jewellery

Jewellery made from plant or animal matter.

When the term organic jewellery is heard, a number of things jump to the mind of what this might be as there are several types of organic jewellery that exist in the world of contemporary jewellery. When looking at the Virtual Gallery of Contemporary Jewellery’s paper on Organic Jewellery, it can be seen that there are several reasons why jewellers use nature as inspiration. The first type of jewellery that I looked at was jewellery that is physically made out of an organic (decomposable) object. The use of a natural object can be significant in expressing metaphors or narrative ideas such as: the sensitivity of nature, issues involving the destruction of nature caused by man, to showcase the specific natural beauty found in a specific place or region or the organic item may have a religious or cultural meaning if worn in jewellery form.