Copper Crown

I have been working on the crown which is made of copper metal. I want  to experience making big pieces of jewellery because I am caged on making small pieces of jewellery. It will help me in future to use to some information I got from making this crown, because I have never soldered a big piece like this one before.  It was quite tricky to solder this crown because it need more heat when soldering on figure 1.

Figure 1- Mthethwa, F., (2019), Crown, copper

In figure 1, it is the plain copper crown, which the different size of strips are solder together.

Figure 2- Mthethwa, F., (2019), Roses, copper.

In  figure 2, are roses which are made of copper. Small plates of copper are pierced out, forged, domed, bent petals by double round pliers and a wire with a ball is solder to hold the plates together.

Figure 3- Mthethwa, F., (2019), Crown, copper.

In figure 3, I soldered the copper roses where the marquee shapes meet on the crown.

Figure 4- Mthethwa, F., (2019), Crown, copper.

Figure 4 I have added twister wire as the imitation of the vine.

Figure 5- Mthethwa, F., (2019), Leaves, copper. 

In Figure 5, I pierced out the leaf shapes and chased the veins using the flat punch. These leaves are going to be soldered on the twisted wire.