Jewelry Design Creativity Can Come from ... Carpets?

The Carrotbox is a site dedicated to all those wonderful rings made of glass, lucite, resin, plastic, jade, wood, bakelite, metal, and even stone. Alice Matsumoto from Vancouver, BC, Canada has a ring shop and has kindly given us permission to inspire our jewelry lovers at Sheffield with her discoveries. In this post, Alice is definitely inspired by a "carpet" theme, which goes to show that absolutely any subject can inspire a jewelry designer's creativity.

If you like bright colors or soft textures — or maybe if you just enjoy vacuuming — check out these textile rings by Paula Mourão. They're like carpet pile! You can also visit the Brazilian jeweller at Atelier Mourão, which was founded by her late father, Caio.

Pictured above is the "Red Carpet" ring by Wisconsin's Michelle Hur, a metalsmith with lots of cool pieces in her portfolio (including a matchstick necklace).

Bonus

This is my favorite kind of carpet — a flying carpet! Ring by UK jeweller and teacher Lisa Cain, whose primary focus is metal clay.

Even more jewellery:

• Eanes by Liat Gilad (Israel) - textiles & metal
• Caves (New York) - crystals & chains
• Elizabeth Callinicos (UK) - art jewellery

Interested in learning more about jewelry design? Explore the Sheffield School, New York, NY. Sheffield began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

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