Steampunk jewellery or you can say vintage technology looks like the jewelry world. The fashion and accessories for this style are continually growing in popularity. So here are more steampunk jewelry tutorials to inspire
Steampunk jewelry got its name from steam, the Victorian era of the 1800s, the invention of steam power, art, romance, and much more. Steampunk jewelry ideas grabbed popularity from science-fiction writing that was set in the steam age of the Victorian Era. steampunk jewelry cultivates DIY flavor.
Steampunk is a style of design and fashion that combines historical elements with anachronistic technological features inspired by science fiction. steampunk jewelry is all about industrial and mechanical kinds of stuff like gears, nuts springs, metal stampings to be assembled to form a romantic piece of art like bracelets, earrings, necklaces, rings, and pendants not only for women but also for men. so one can say that steampunk jewelry is more incongruous with jewelry.
Steampunk jewelry ideas feature mechanical primarily and industrial components unlike other jewelry components like- metal gears, and old watch parts which are soldered, riveted, stacked, and wired. this jewelry doesn’t require any costly materials just waste or junk or old bits of metal ephemera beautifully arranged or soldered or wired to make a steampunk accessory. Cast-iron and wood instead of aluminum. Silk and linen instead of polyester. Brass and glass and rubber instead of plastic. Welding instead of superglue. Rivets instead of injection molding. Leather belts and buckles instead of Velcro. One more fantastic thing is you can use polymer clay, resin, or air dry clay with these metal components to finish your steampunk jewelry.
It is an ideal jewelry style for those of us who love collecting all those little pieces, from our old friends, family members, or from our loved ones. The goal of Steampunk is to fashion and inhabit a unique way of fashion sense.
A world where the awe and romance inspired by humanity’s pursuit of scientific knowledge is reflected in our tools, furniture, architecture, literature, art, and fashions.
Here Are A Few Steampunk Jewelry Making Materials You Can Collect
1. Metal Finding And Chains: An important component in steampunk style jewelry. available in different colors and designs in shops. for steampunk jewelry, dull-colored chains are preferable to me.
2. Glass: glass can be your old hand watch glass or small glass pieces or glass beads to make your steampunk jewelry more attractive. one can use these pieces with fabrics for necklaces, hats, or bracelets.
3. Stones: stones like opal, ruby, sapphire. amber, freshwater pearl, jasper, coral, and turquoise used in steampunk art make it look luxuries. Using stones in steampunk work related to trade route history. more you are creative with your art, and more ideas will be there to use these materials.
4. Found Objects: It's my favorite materials things when comes to making steampunk work. found object means time traveling pieces of stuff like an old watch, a used purse or your one lost shoe or heels, your old denim, rusted keys, and other mechanical types of equipment.
5. Charms: components in steampunk style jewelry include keys, skulls, wings, snakes, flowers, name printed tags religious symbols, dragons, festival symbols, and message metals tags. These charms are found in different sizes. some use polymer clay or resin to make light weights or glowing charms.
6. Beads:- Available in different shapes and materials of crystals, glass, porcelain, metals , clay, or woods. An important part of ornaments and easy to find.
7. Eyelets:- Two-part brass findings. lend a smooth metal lining to a hole in metal or leather.
8. Fabrics: talking about fabrics for steampunk jewelry, used to give a romantic effect to our finished piece of work. netted fabric, faux leather, denim, or leather pieces to make bracelets or necklaces. It's better to use recycled leather from used boots or coats or old purses.
9. Threads: to string beads and stitch fabrics and even stitch metal apart from the fabric.
10. Filigree
11. connectors, jewelry tools, lobster lock, jump rings, clasps, and lock beads.
Designing Your Own Stunning Eye-Catching Steam Punk Jewelry
when comes to making your own DIY steampunk jewelry collection, one does not need to go to the shop to buy beads or heavy stones or some other kinds of stuff. so, what are
we going to need to make it? your old alarm watch, random typewriter key, a bunch of loose buttons, an old purse or shoe for leather, old denim for jeans. yes, you need to have to use these odds stuff to get into work.
get started with your creative designer mind for some steampunk ideas to work with all the gathered stuff. just be creative and experimental with your steampunk work and capture your styles and taste in your DIY steampunk art.
for making steampunk jewelry, you need to first collect all your findings accordingly to your design. start with the basic and a simple idea of jewelry. remember when it comes to steampunk, the more eclectic and unusual, the better!
this is the steampunk pendant we are going to make today
Materials We Needed For This:-
1. nail foil( some vintage) or just old newspaper cutting
2. brass one-sided open pendant holder
3. some mechanical parts
4. chain
5. lobster locks
6. epoxy resin or UV resin
steps:-
1. cut the nail foil or old newspaper according to the size of the pendant and place it inside of it. if you are using old newspaper cutting, use mod podge to seal and coat the paper.
2. now arrange the gear or mechanical equipment as your wish. no need to use glue or any other sticking material
3. pour resin over the piece. here, if you are using uv resin so just pour a thin layer of it and place it under uv light to dry and repeat again and again to fill the pendant. Now if you are working with epoxy resin, the need to be careful with the instruction given with the resin bottle. mix accordingly and let it dry in a dust-free area.
4. ta-da your steampunk pendant is ready. put it in a chain.
5. using plugger and jump ring, attach a lobster lock to one end of the chain and one more jump ring to the other end of the chain
6. here. your own creative charming DIY steampunk necklace is ready for you.
you can watch the complete tutorial on youtube.
Are you looking for some inspiration? here are some works of steampunk jewelry ideas from a google search.
Applications
many steampunk artists explore themes of form and function, so a lot of steampunk art serves a dual purpose. not only are they objects of art in their own right, but they might be made with objects that once had a function, remade, and modified to have a new function.
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