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About knots

Knots are used to attach, hold, construct,... They are functional. But they are also very decorative and give a beautiful texture to materials. I love to use different knots (chinese, celtic, fisherman, sailor...) in my jewelry design, specially with modern or high tech fabrics. Fabrics like rattail, tanara, teflon or goretex are uv and water resistant and perfect to make very long lasting jewelry, better than leather or silk. I use them in knots with natural gemstone beads and precious metal for a trendy and fashionable look. It's all about color and texture.

I've been fascinated by knots for several years now, and I made this giant habitat knot when questioning the time. I remember it took more than 15 m ( ) of fabrics to construct the habitat and I had to construct a structure in aluminium because it was so heavy. French philosopher Gilles Deleuze wrote "la matière-pli est la matiere-temps", I translate as "plaits are the texture of time". I love this idea that plaits and knots are the materialisation or visualisation of the time.

Volkim Creations Shop

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Mohs' scale of Hardness

I made this table of the most frequent semi-precious gemstones I use in my jewelry. It helps me to better understand the rocks I work with. In fact the most ennoying part when making jewelry is bead reaming. Unfortunately it often happens, when buying natural gemstone beads, that the holes are to small and you need to ream or drill the beads. I spent so much time on some beads, and I didn't understand first why some beads were more difficult than others, even small one. Now with this table, I know better how challenging each stone can be when making or cleaning jewelry.

The stones can be scratched by a knife blade at 3.5, glass at 5.5 and steel file at 6.5

I hope you will like my table and I will appreciate your comments.

For more informations about Mohs scale of Hardness click on the link.

Some of my creations