Copper Jewelry Handmade in Eye-catching Designs
Copper Reflections artisans have been making handmade jewelry pieces unique to them by creating their own original designs and techniques. Handmade jewelry and gifts are created from copper using a wide range of designs from wildlife, nature, Native American, western and animal designs.
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unique jewelry handcrafted by using black inks, silver solutions, engraving, and diamond cutting. Each of these outstanding jewelry creations has beautiful earth tones black, silver and copper.
The jewelry-making technique that these talented artisans use dates back hundreds of years. The history of Copper Arts goes back centuries. Copper was used because of the softness that made it easier to shape. In the old days, copper was shaped through hammering or spinning on a lathe by hand into functional shapes like weapons and tools, art objects and decorative ornaments, vases, bowls, and water jugs. Copper was used as water jugs because it kept water cooler and fresher in the hot summer days.
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| Cut Out Hummingbird Earrings |
Copper was the first metal mined and crafted by man and has been the most important metal throughout history. It was available in great volumes and easily mined at the surface of the earth. Archaeological excavations proved that copper crafting was known in Eastern Turkey, Persians and by Sumerians, since the beginning of a Neolithic era.
Copper working had reached high practical levels in Mesopotamia and Egypt at the end of the fourth-century B.C.Copper reached the Mediterranean coasts and to the West reaching through Anatolia all the way to Troy on the Aegean Sea.
During the third century B.C., Troy became very important in copper art history, as copper craftsmen, merchants, and traders established Troy as a commercial center. From Troy, technical knowledge and the materials for copper working reached the Aegean islands all the way to Spain. After 2000 B.C. copper crafting was widely used throughout Europe. The discovery of the process needed to obtain copper from its ores was a very important event in history and gave birth to copper crafting.
The first copper works were made by cutting, curving and hammering with a stone hammer. The old blacksmiths made an important discovery that copper hardens under prolonged hammering, but can be brought back to its initial condition of softness by heating (annealing) without changing the shape.
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| Handmade Copper Feather Rings Adjustable |
Many ancient objects were handcrafted through alternate cycles of hammering and annealing, with a final hammering to obtain the necessary hardness. In ancient times, copper art objects were made by the Coppersmiths used raw copper to create with various techniques. For example, the simplest way to obtain a copper bowl consisted of hammering a copper disc placed on a hollowed wooden block.
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| Copper American Bald Eagle Bracelets |
This is the most ancient method of handcraft bowls, dating back to Babylon. Another technique was known as raising which became very popular to obtain an embossed decorative copper artwork.
Copper was brilliantly utilized by the artists of the classical age, and then in the Middle Ages, and in the masterpieces of Renaissance and Baroque. Copper continued to be used mainly for household objects.
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| Colorful Copper Howling Wolf Earrings |
Working techniques remained almost unchanged over the centuries, while the shapes were continuously improved to fit with the evolution of the lifestyle. Its properties, discovered and appreciated by our ancient ancestors, are still valid today.
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| Alaska Scene Howling Wolf Earrings |
Wolves play an important role in the mythology of nearly every Native American Indian tribe. In most Native cultures, Wolf is considered a medicine being associated with courage, strength, loyalty, and success at hunting. Wolves are symbols of intelligence and instinct. Embrace the wolf as your inner spiritual guardian by wearing Wolf Earrings from our Wolf Jewelry collection.
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| Copper Hummingbird Bracelets |
Copper jewelry worn directly on skin has been used as a remedy for many ailments, including arthritis. Copper bracelets ease joint and arthritis. Copper jewelry has been considered as a "Fountain of Youth" for its ability to improve the elastic fiber in skin, increase skin flexibility, and act as an anti-wrinkle treatment.
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| Copper Deep Red Color Flower Jewelry Earrings |
We have been working on our jewelry since 1985. We have created the techniques and the designs ourselves over the years. We have participated in many craft shows in Canada and the US, and we believe that we are the only ones making this type of jewelry.
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| Red Rose Bracelets |
We go through 32 steps to complete each piece. Copper sheets are polished, silver-plated and the designs are printed onto the silver-plated surface. Then the shapes are cut out by hand using shears or cutting tools.
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| Copper Tree of Life Bracelets |
Each piece is diamond cut by hand to make them sparkle. We form the jewelry to make them look richer. We use surgical steel hypoallergenic ear wires for the earrings. During these steps, we have to spray them with clear acrylic as part of the process.
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| Copper Fall Color Maple Leaves Earrings |
These coatings of finish also protect our copper jewelry from tarnishing, so no polishing is required as long as the finishes are not scratched or they are not exposed to chemicals constantly like detergents. As our work is made in a unique technique of making copper jewelry, we could not learn from other people and we had to figure out many problems over the years by trial and error.
