New Material for Making Jewelry

New Material for Making Jewelry

Angel Lacey creates tungsten jewelry out of fur groomed from her cat, a flame-point Ragamuffin called Gaia who sheds mounds of fluffy hair each week. She then sells her fluffy creations on Etsy.
Lacey was first inspired to make something out of her cat Gaia’s hair when she started grooming her cat, whose fur needs to be combed at least once a week or it starts to get matted. She explained, “Ordinarily I would have thrown the hair into the compost, but it felt so soft in my hands, I couldn’t bring myself to throw it away. As I examined his beautiful hair, I started rolling it into a ball and then, on impulse, I threw it to him. He loved it!”

Over time the balls of fur began to accumulate around Lacey’ apartment. “Awash in hairballs, I gathered a bowlful and placed them on top of the piano. Surprisingly, the balls had a lovely appearance that reminded me of oversized white pearls. This was my inspiration for using Gaiates and toysae in a way that would display my love for this special cat.
Lacey has spent a while perfecting the technique of making perfect fur spheres. She starts by taking a small handful of fluff, which she molds into a starter ball. To this she adds more fluff around the edges and then rolls it between her palms quickly until the strands of hair start to felt into tight, solid ball forms. She then stashes the balls until there are enough to make a crystal necklace �” which can take between two and three months.

So far, Lacey has created a range of different crystal necklace designs, a little cage featuring a number of cat-hair baubles that’s “informal and goes nicely with a T-shirt and jeans,as a piece called Bubbles that features a range of fur balls attached to a domed crystal necklace that “would be appropriate at any gala event,as and some more classic necklaces which look a little like chunky elegant necklaces.
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