JEWELRY Ivy Long
Jewelry
I am inspired by
the limitless possibilities of colors and textures… from a mix of beads and a
tangle of threads, a pattern, a web, emerges, intricate and unique—with a
history and future all its own.
Ivy Long creates her one-of-a-kind jewelry using a
fiber technique she developed and refined based on Victorian and Renaissance
lace making, bead crochet and conventional jewelry production skills.
Apprenticing while still in high school and going on to work for several
well-known jewelry designers before starting her business, Edera (named after
the Italian word for “ivy vine”), Ivy’s artistic training is primarily in
jewelry. However, as the daughter of a milliner/fiber artist, Ivy grew up in a
creative household surrounded by beautiful textiles and learned to knit, sew
and embroider at an early age. It was only after teaching herself how to
crochet that she realized she could combine her love of needlecraft with that
of jewelry to create fascinating contrasts of textures, colors, and patterns.
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