Russian Filigree

Lumiere, Russian Filigree Ring, 2006; 22k gold, 18k gold, fine silver, Koroit opal; .875 x .625 x .125 in; Collection of Kelley Keogh
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Illuminating, Embracing, and Unraveling: Filigree Ring Highlights

If you’ve ever taken a beginning figure drawing course, odds are the instructor had you do a blind contour drawing in which you look at the person you wish to draw (or in a mirror) and not at all at your paper. You’re also not allowed to lift the pen or pencil off the page….

Holding It Together - 3D Filigree Hair Comb by Victoria Lansford
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Trying to “hold it all together?”

Grasp it dimensionally with 3D Filigree! Art Nouveau Meets Contemporary Filigree If you’re curious how long it took me to create this piece, I’ll give you a hint. I paint my fingernails about every 3.5 weeks, and I don’t always change the color. In other words…It took ages! Access begins February 15th with the first…

Possible scabbard fittings from the Staffordshire Hoard, The potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
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It’s Time To Celebrate!

2024 marks my 35th year as a professional metalsmith! To celebrate, I’m launching 2 huge projects! One is a retrospective of my artwork with insights and highlights about my most significant pieces from each year of my journey. This will be experienced both online and in print, so wherever you are, you’ll be able to…

Rauni Higson Illuminating Silver exhibition in Wales, in conversation with the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust
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Filigree’s Beautiful Lace + Wildly Forged Silver

It’s been yet another tough week, here on planet Earth. Frankly, I have been grateful to be living indoors with adequate water and, occasionally, heat. Last week our not-very-old-furnace tripped the carbon monoxide detector when I wasn’t in the house, but my son and husband were. Still, there was electricity to power that alarm to…

Sea Star II, Russian Filigree ring by Victoria Lansford; photo by Pat Vasquez-Cunningham
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A Filigree Rebel with a Reverence for the Past

Thinking back to what made me good at filigree, I’ve probably proven my own theory that that the rise and fall of certain technologies is related to the economic constraints of a particular time and culture…except that it didn’t always. Long long ago (”in a galaxy far far away”…almost 35 years ago!) I was a…