Chapter 3 Making Gooseberry Pods

Making Gooseberry Pods:

I created my gooseberry pods by rolling out a metal sheet to about 0.25 or 0.3mm thick. I then cut out shapes resembling a five-point flower. Afterwards, I punched grooves down the centre of each ‘petal’ with my flat punch and I bent up the edges of each petal. After annealing, I bent the petals around a ball punch to complete the shape of the gooseberry pods.

Figure 2 is an image of an unfinished pod:

Figure 2 - van der Linden, A., (2019) Copper
gooseberry pod prototypes

Figure 3 is an image of a few complete pods:

Figure 3 - van der Linden, A., (2019) Copper
gooseberry pod prototypes