One of Judy Geib's free-flowing designs, an 18-karat gold lace-like Peter Pan collar, was made with the scraps gathered from around her workbench. It is part of Studio Sweep, the series she began in 2018.
Unlike most fine jewelers, she does not sketch or plan her designs, but rather she sits at her workbench seven days a week playing with metals, gems, wire, and cardboard cutouts. Hand making is especially important to me because it is a slow process that lets ideas gradually come into focus, she said.
One of the best examples, he said, is Ms. Geib's riviere necklace of Colombian emeralds, each in a hand-forged 22-karat gold setting. The shapes and patina aren't exactly the same so it's clear it's done by hand.
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