Earrings, 'Silver Cascade'

A sleek cone cascades into a tumble of luscious berries and delicate leaves. An alluring silver fantasy, these tasteful earrings can be dressed up or down. Ploy Intha has an unbreakable spirit, battling countless difficulties to fulfill her dream as a silversmith. Intha describes the intricate process: "The silver alloy is molten in the forge and cast into little moulds for the balls and beaten with hammers for the thin sheets. It is also beaten and stretched into thin strings, and cut into small pieces. Some of these strings are shaped as the hooks whereas others are chained together and attached to the balls and sheets to form the wanted pattern. Once finished, the pieces are washed into a washing solution generally composed of tamarind. Then they are washed with water, dried and filed with a small brass brush and polished with a cloth." 92.5% silver and 7.5% copper