#  @WingsNDNSilver NDN Silver NDN Silver posts on X about silver, shell, snowflake, dot the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::1172206671570931712/interactions)  - [--] Week [-----] +40% - [--] Month [------] +125% - [--] Months [------] +423% - [--] Year [------] +42% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1172206671570931712/posts_active)  - [--] Month [---] -16% - [--] Months [---] +178% - [--] Year [---] +39% ### Followers: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::1172206671570931712/followers)  - [--] Week [-----] -0.56% - [--] Month [-----] -0.77% - [--] Months [-----] +5.10% - [--] Year [-----] +18% ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::1172206671570931712/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [countries](/list/countries) [stocks](/list/stocks) [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [currencies](/list/currencies) **Social topic influence** [silver](/topic/silver) #3371, [shell](/topic/shell), [snowflake](/topic/snowflake), [dot](/topic/dot) #1597, [red](/topic/red), [fine](/topic/fine), [arc](/topic/arc), [the first](/topic/the-first), [sun](/topic/sun), [in the](/topic/in-the) **Top assets mentioned** [Orbs (ORBS)](/topic/orbs) [Caught in 4K (4K)](/topic/$4k) [Scallop (SCA)](/topic/scallop) [Dusk (DUSK)](/topic/dusk) [April (APRIL)](/topic/april) [Dent (DENT)](/topic/dent) [Wings (WINGS)](/topic/wings) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "We'll start with the stone (which is technically not a stone at all but a mix of shell and metal). Thee composite cabochons featured metal matrices are relatively new. They're not terribly costly usually but they ARE fragile" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1281066615509942273) 2020-07-09T03:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Yup. This is "Fall: Early Frost and Sunset Fire": All [--] in this series were created to honor the winds and directions the stars and the petals of flowers. Now do you see why I say it looks like a shield http://wingssilverwork.com/fall-early-frost-and-sunset-fire-necklace-2000/ http://wingssilverwork.com/fall-early-frost-and-sunset-fire-necklace-2000/" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1581106586415550465) 2022-10-15T02:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "That pendant is every bit as big as it looks; it's solid sterling silver. Edges saw-cut and scalloped freehand in one go; [--] large Red Creek jasper daggers at the cardinal directions; [--] smaller ones at the ordinals. Agatized ocean jasper at center. Spare leaf/flower stampwork:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1581107188990324736) 2022-10-15T02:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The flared edges got "fletched" via textured parallel lines repeated on diagonals. In between a pair of deeply scored parallel lines with negative space between running the length of the shaft ending in a large point at the top of the bowl" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1672072766391222273) 2023-06-23T02:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I spoke with the vet's office today when we made our contribution to Sadie's fund. They've raised only $200 so far; $800 is still needed. You can help defray that" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1674265699554828288) 2023-06-29T03:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Both date back to the first of August of last year right at the heart of what should be our monsoon season which means purple stormclouds and purple fire in the sky" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1674578254064152577) 2023-06-30T00:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The post goes over what we mean when we talk about "calibrated cabs" and how they're not actually identical even though they're presented that way. These were hand-selected from Wings entire inventory for shape size doming height and color" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1674578539792793604) 2023-06-30T00:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "He also chose to use extended butterfly backs which as you can see in the image look rather floral-like too . . . but their real charm is in the fact that the size matches the stud so both sides of the lobe are held securely. Prevents tipping pulling loss" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1674578938587148288) 2023-06-30T00:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "As always Wings never creates any two works that are exactly the same and you might wonder how you can make simple gemstone studs unique but believe me: It can be done. you can commission a version uniquely your own via the form here:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1674579166748897280) 2023-06-30T00:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "In the meantime local Good Girl Sadie still needs help to cover surgery for her tumor removal. Here's a mini-thread to explain and the number to donate is in it:" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1674579720552235009) 2023-06-30T00:44Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Also I forgot to post Wings's newest here the extraordinary cuff that he completed two days ago; it's up on the site now. This is "Warbonnet Sky": Sterling silver; natural Fox turquoise from Nevada:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1674583848733089794) 2023-06-30T01:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Why the name Well take a look at the fanned radiant feather motifs around the focal and then remember Thunderbird aiming his lightning-bolt arrows through the storm. Here's a top view:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1674584113397760000) 2023-06-30T01:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The focal is one piece with a "cross" to honor the winds and the sacred directions at the center its spokes saw-cut freehand to articulate them from the surrounding silver all four texturized freehand with a single tiny divot-end stamp:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1674584438355763201) 2023-06-30T01:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1674585556540334085) 2023-06-30T01:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "And we will continue to need to make consistent sales all year so shares are much appreciated. Between this year's tax bill and quarterly prepayments against next year's we'll be paying on it all year long" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1674585612790136834) 2023-06-30T01:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@AnyFishAnyTime INNIT He was planning on a belt buckle; then he shifted to bolo; finally he decided on bracelet. Obviously this was always meant to be its final form LOL. But he spent A LOT of planning and contemplation time on every stage of it" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1674615880997535745) 2023-06-30T03:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "And we will continue to need to make consistent sales all year so shares are much appreciated. Between this year's tax bill and quarterly prepayments against next year's we'll be paying on it all year long" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1678133108451704832) 2023-07-09T20:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "In addition to next year's prepayments all of which are still due I have a dog that will probably need surgery a husband in need of $25K in dental repairs after the last one botched it beyond recovery and a drop of $250+/month in my Patreon" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1678133178018455554) 2023-07-09T20:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I juggled some things and eked out $100 and I hope you'll match it all part MORE whatever. A masjid (mosque) in Portales NM has been vandalized [--] times in [--] days. Desecrated (urinating on carpets pouring alcohol on the Quran)" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1678133710233763841) 2023-07-09T20:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "That's in addition to hacking the walls and doors and seats to pieces spray-painting the walls destroying the A/C (it gets above [---] there this time of year). And living a picture of Jesus on all the mess just so they'd know what kind of violent white supremacy was involved" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1678134024814862336) 2023-07-09T20:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog it's an edition of Red Willow Spirit for a rainy season potentially renewed and for the gifts that the last of the storm leaves behind:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1691590141863748013) 2023-08-15T23:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Two images today linked by a single work of wearable art. The photos are of a piece with yesterday's as I said then: shot by Wings in digital format on the same day only moments apart. Yesterday's shows the front side of the structures; today's the back" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1691590400102768989) 2023-08-15T23:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Today's NDN Silver Insta: Follow us at:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1694877740904931361) 2023-08-25T01:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "And again I cannot overemphasize how badly we need sales. It's grim here not just for us but for everybody. So please share and please keep us in mind for purchases in the days weeks and months ahead" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1695551966011674799) 2023-08-26T21:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Second a pair of personal favorites "A Sacred Fire": Saw-cut freehand including the ajour mirrored "kiva steps" design at center:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1697825533415850256) 2023-09-02T04:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Third another recent pair "Nebula": One-inch sterling silver conchas hand-scored stamped and domed set at the center with hand-made ingot repouss starbursts:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1697826144047837642) 2023-09-02T04:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "All right let's do a quick inventory thread. VERY quick tonight. Rough day pain-wise and I still have a lot to do both on- and offline" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1699255420458508476) 2023-09-06T02:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "And the third and final pair is ribbon turquoise. These are "A Braided Earth": Sterling silver; ribbon turquoise might be Kingman; it's almost opalescent. Organic single bezel backing around the [--] handmade ingot rosettes:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1699257631880155348) 2023-09-06T03:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "If you're thinking of leaving Twitter (or even if you're not) follow us over at bluesky here: @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1699572143196147947) 2023-09-06T23:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "And after [--] months of one of our worst sales years ever I have GOT to bring in some steady sales now. Holidays will be here before you know it; please share our links and keep us in mind for purchases" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1699572333285912774) 2023-09-06T23:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1699612686831480861) 2023-09-07T02:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "And as I've been saying after [--] months of one of our worst sales years ever I have GOT to bring in some sales. Please share our links and keep us in mind for purchases. Holidays will be here before you know it" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1699612854297505893) 2023-09-07T02:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog it's a work that might seem traditionally colonial to outsiders but is in fact remarkably subversive a tribute to spirits far older and more eternal than those of invading populations:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1700646496331346393) 2023-09-09T23:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "It's a necklace today called "The Stars and the Sacred Directions": Sterling silver; deep teal blue turquoise with inky black matrix part of a parcel of unknown origin:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1700646736283201767) 2023-09-09T23:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "It's a revival of one of Wings's old old vintage-style designs. It's also through a certain type of lens something that seems to be that thing he says he won't do except for the rare commission for a friend: a cruciform cross" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1700646965824946652) 2023-09-09T23:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Why should be obvious. And in an explosion of the universe's irony meter guess what the single most requested item by tourists was when we had our brick-and-mortar gallery YUP. Every. single. year. Neither cultural- nor self-awareness was their strong suit" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1700647284378087829) 2023-09-09T23:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "All right today's work was in part a tribute to the Sacred Directions. So for tonight's inventory selections I'm going to feature three items earring pairs all whose form and shape do likewise" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1700686465074655588) 2023-09-10T01:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The wrap holds the focal perfectly and the band is beautifully stamped freehand with elongated Eyes of Spirit between rounded cloud formations at either border:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1701393642844238203) 2023-09-12T00:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Now there is another cuff that would coordinate with the necklace particularly the reds in it. This one is called "An Elemental Love" and it's an old-style hook bracelet: Sterling silver; Rosarita:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1701393989885133223) 2023-09-12T00:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Jill Biden has COVID. What the entire FUCK are these people doing" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1701742381328924809) 2023-09-12T23:39Z [----] followers, 17.2K engagements "I am so tired. Absolutely exhausted. This colonizer country wants us dead and they love rubbing our noses in it" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1701744529018159313) 2023-09-12T23:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Nah not doing it tonight. Too disgusted and exhausted to care. I can't keep pushing myself beyond my limits and in a society that prefers us dead why give them that" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1701772151219511469) 2023-09-13T01:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Probably won't do inventory threads for a while other than the daily post. It's too much and we've got a whole holiday season to get through it starts with October 1st essentially. So probably nothing between now and then. It was stupid to think I could" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1701772466136170528) 2023-09-13T01:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "It's #ThrowbackThursday at The NDN Silver Blog with a #TBT work that dates back close to a decade perhaps a little more:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1702466392476274986) 2023-09-14T23:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "It's molded commercially in industrial-length molds (triangle square round half-round bead pattern braid twisted etc.). Then it's cut to order and it's popular among metalsmiths for cuffs and ring bands" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1703158913175003468) 2023-09-16T21:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The first [--] listed above can all be stamped on their outer surface and this was no exception. On the lower band on each upper angle Wings chose simple Eyes of Spirit linked by single scored lines:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1703159190099788258) 2023-09-16T21:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "They're linked here by one of Wings's more recent pairs of earrings one in his latest quartet one of which is sold in a sometime/intermittent series of multi-stone multi-element traditional dangles" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1704295284388335965) 2023-09-20T00:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "This pair is called "Aspen Leaf and Moonlight": yes I know the images are of sunlight not moonglow but the principle holds. Sterling silver; lime jade:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1704295470946787382) 2023-09-20T00:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Also that particular one has special significance for me: my sister whose walking-on anniversary is coming up in less than three weeks. Perhaps it was her" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1706489878207226126) 2023-09-26T02:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "But go read the post. Context matters and one aspect of that is the leaves in the image. Because leaves will play a role along with butterflies and other spirits the rest of this week" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1706490014949904477) 2023-09-26T02:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog it's a work for these days of an adobe sun low and warm and setting our world aflame in the most beautiful of ways:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1708648389955481857) 2023-10-02T01:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Today it's 1/3 of a trio of related works created expressly to coordinate but able to stand on their own and so offered for sale separately. There's another thing about this trio: They were originally created for spring but they're perfect for fall too" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1708648458595229998) 2023-10-02T01:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "This is the necklace from Wings's limited signature series "The Spring Elementals: Fire." Today It speaks to me entirely of fall shadow and light. It's called "Adobe Sun":" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1708648585087082977) 2023-10-02T01:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "It looked cosmic: like nebulae like new stars being born. Our friend was delighted with it. Fast-forward to this year. She wanted a ring to complete this informal "set" and she had two specifications:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1710107750435377525) 2023-10-06T01:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "First the stone should be one of the marquise-cut kyanite cabs to match the barrette. Second she wanted a band like that of another ring in inventory already sold with unique features: split on either end strands spread to uplift the bezel" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1710107832572342457) 2023-10-06T01:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "That band had been made with sterling silver pattern wire heavy-gauge half-round in shape and molded into a flowering vine motif. She liked the design so he used the same pattern wire to create her band as well" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1710107878936248594) 2023-10-06T01:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "He split the ends and gently spread them up and out after shaping the rest of the band. It created a sliver of open space beneath the focal on the sides and formed an open-space diamond shape like an Eye of Spirit directly underneath the bezel" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1710107948159045843) 2023-10-06T01:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "And while we've had a couple of sales and thus some breathing room this is still our worst sales year in recent memory. October 1st also marked the official start of our 3-month holiday creative season which means 16-hour days [--] days a week for [--] months for both of us" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1710108497960993110) 2023-10-06T01:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The holidays will be here before you know it. And the sales we make during this period used to be what kept us alive for the first half of the year to come. This year We're too far behind. So please share the links and keep us in mind for purchases" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1710108572418297906) 2023-10-06T01:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "And while we've had a couple of sales and thus some breathing room this is still our worst sales year in recent memory. October 1st also marked the official start of our 3-month holiday creative season which means 16-hour days [--] days a week for [--] months for both of us" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1710469097098543555) 2023-10-07T01:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The holidays will be here before you know it. And the sales we make during this period used to be what kept us alive for the first half of the year to come. This year We're too far behind. So please share the links and keep us in mind for purchases" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1710469167235641358) 2023-10-07T01:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "It's my birthday and I want two things: First I want to raise funds for a local elder and one of Wings's oldest friends a fabulous Indigenous artist who's been hospitalized unable to work and is facing more medical issues. The thread is here:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1715434919294570962) 2023-10-20T18:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "We are stalled at the total from two nights ago $1228.48. I'd like to double that before the weekend at least. We're using our PayPal account as a pass-through. You can donate here and specify "FOR FRANK" in the notes section:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1715435009258229971) 2023-10-20T18:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Again wide 9-gauge band this one also in paired radiant motifs edged by cloud-like crescents and again a reason why sizing is not a simple matter. Bezel wrought entirely by hand each parallel segment saw-cut by hand and filed smooth" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1716627429790552502) 2023-10-24T01:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "And that stone So old so longn part of his private collection he no longer recalls how he acquired it; it might have been passed down to him by his late father. Technically there's no proving origin but given advanced age electric blue freeform surface pyrite Morenci" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1716627598594527480) 2023-10-24T01:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "And while we've had a few sales and thus some limited breathing room this is still our worst sales year in recent memory. October 1st also marked the official start of our 3-month holiday creative season which means 16-hour days [--] days a week for [--] months for both of us" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1719859839428681780) 2023-11-01T23:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The holidays will be here before you know it. And the sales we make during this period used to be what kept us alive for the first half of the year to come. This year We're too far behind. So please share the links and keep us in mind for purchases" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1719859911646212262) 2023-11-01T23:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Second is a larger concha-style pair called "Flowering Worlds": These are hand-milled in a bold floral pattern equal parts Art Nouveau and Flower Power domed by hand in big bold half-spheres. Sterling silver wires" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1720603530283893003) 2023-11-04T00:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Third is a more traditional pair of conchas called "Nebula": These are smaller only lightly domed with radiant freehand stampwork embracing a central Guiding Star atop which is overlaid a hand-made ingot starburst. Sterling silver wires" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1720603675159404933) 2023-11-04T00:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Fourth and finally and also the newest pair old-style tab earrings; these are called "The Dawn Horizon": Silver tabs saw-cut long and slender; a entirely freehanded radiant sunrise flanked by 5-pointed stars top and bottom; sterling silver wires" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1720603814544445642) 2023-11-04T00:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "So I'm compromising. Screenshots of his work with the threads for the day deleted at day's end. So be sure to look for them by early evening each day" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1726405740611637552) 2023-11-20T01:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "This is an old vintage style a radiant design in which the rays vaguely resemble headdresses. Wings last created these nearly twenty years ago; now he has four pairs in inventory [--] with stones [--] without of which this pair is the second most recently made" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1726405795641004168) 2023-11-20T01:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog it's a Monday Photo Meditation for a week that has begun with the first real snow of the season:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1726790545148928159) 2023-11-21T02:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "No photo here of course or anywhere but the link. I never post Wings's photos on social media. But this one is brilliant literally; intense; stormy; hauntingly beautiful. Go look" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1726790579508711911) 2023-11-21T02:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "These earrings that loosely coordinates; not created to match but they do. These are "Raining Sun": Slender sterling silver frames saw-cut freehand; suspended in each teardrops of more rare Russian simbircite. Freehand stampwork/ingot detail:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1726814796337775006) 2023-11-21T04:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "More earrings first in two related pairs. This is "Chrysalis Sun": Sterling silver; amber. Fiery sun-like orbs at the center of old-school repouss Butterfly conchas made by hand and fully 3D:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1726815029264286175) 2023-11-21T04:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "It's just interesting to me that most of the time that was not lapis although he's used it widely in other contexts. Here it's the color of nightfall of wild summer monsoons and stormy winter skies. Like what we can expect tomorrow they say" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1727855915318255967) 2023-11-24T01:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The pin itself is based on the general form and shape of the iconic North House over a millennium old inhabited that entire time and the house into which he was born. The arrangement of rooflines of windows and doors of ladders and accent stone is always different" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1727856027289415991) 2023-11-24T01:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "This week's Friday Feature is a single powerful work shown from four different vantage points. It's a cuff bracelet called Beneath the Surface": Sterling silver; royal lapis lazuli" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1728207723559612573) 2023-11-25T00:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The band is formed of heavy-gauge sterling silver half-round "wire" with some [--] separate lines scored freehand into its upper surface. They're incised deeply on diagonals the total split in half and leaning inward facing each other and *wrap all the way around the band*" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1728207932662399394) 2023-11-25T00:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Second the only other pair in this informal series in current inventory "The Moon Rides the Winds of Night": Sterling silver; onyx; rainbow moonstone. Again hand-made sterling silver ingot starbursts and repouss Eye of Spirit pendants:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1728582384604586183) 2023-11-26T01:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Third is "Stardust Blues" traditional concha earrings: Sterling silver; lapis lazuli. Hand-domed with Guiding Star imagery at center ringed by radiant suns:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1728582720669057457) 2023-11-26T01:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Fourth is the only other one in inventory in the same informal series as the concha pair above; this is "Nebula": Solid sterling silver. Again hand-domed slightly different Guiding stars/suns and a hand-made ingot starburst overlay at center:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1728582957198463081) 2023-11-26T01:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Fifth is more solid silver; these are called "The Dawn Horizon": Classic tab earrings of solid lightweight sterling silver cut long and narrow stamped freehand with a radiant horizon on the vertical between bookending stars:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1728583238858518701) 2023-11-26T01:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "They're formed of small silver medallions perfectly round domed as they are here they measure 7/8" across but flat they'd be 1"" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1728868305551962490) 2023-11-26T20:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "They're scored freehand eight rays each emanating out from the center underneath the bezel. The end of each ray terminates in a tiny hoop flanking the radiant lodge motif that sits between each line. It speaks of illumination but also of shelter and ceremony" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1728868373021458579) 2023-11-26T20:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "On that day the skies were just beginning to clear from a real winter storm the kind that used to be ordinary here: IOW measured not in inches but in feet" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1729247553718567310) 2023-11-27T21:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The snow was still falling lightly as the storm moved out eastward between the peaks but the sun shone brightly through beneath seeming to set sky and air alike on fire and turn those falling snowflakes into crystal flames" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1729247592838758880) 2023-11-27T21:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "All right Cyber Monday. We've had zero sales this biggest holiday weekend. It's been a frankly terrible year across the board and to make it next year I've got to bring in a LOT more over the next four weeks. So far Zip. So. Tonight's thread of inventory selections" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1729317649262502010) 2023-11-28T01:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "For a bracelet One from spring "Firewheel Prairie": Memory wire; old amber; iron pyrite; Ethiopian silver; sardonyx; mookaite; cherry amber; that same incredible fire agate; faceted citrine;old metallic glass trade beads; jade; chrome diopside" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1729319497633518022) 2023-11-28T02:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Next up. one of the few trios still together from summer. The necklace "The Moons of Summer": Beads are onyx; old amber glass; crackling fire agate; pink fluorite; pearl; snowflake obsidian; old peacock-finish glass; jet; basaltic lava rock" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1729319878296023445) 2023-11-28T02:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "This set is really incredible. The earrings are called "Wildfire Nights": Sterling silver; Pietersite; ultra-high-grade fossilized palm wood; crackling fire agate; onyx" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1729320085440045120) 2023-11-28T02:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "And the coil here is also $25 less than the others. Not a perfect match but that citrine . . . "The Sacerd Hoop": Memory wire; jet; lapis lazuli; red tiger's eye; garnet; tiger's eye; citrine; white-lip mother-of-pearl shell" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1729321372739056106) 2023-11-28T02:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Last darker reds for winter. The necklace is called "The Sleeping Ground": Rutilated quartz (clear white with black schorl); rainbow moonstone; snowflake obsidian; jet; tridacna shell; Indonesian silver; gray moonstone; Dolomite; black moonstone" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1729322707156869243) 2023-11-28T02:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "We DO still need to make sales every week. And the holidays will be here before you know it. So please do continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1729323871449620634) 2023-11-28T02:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Also It's a chance to score some absolutely extraordinary one-of-a-kind Indigenous wearable and other art in styles you won't see anywhere else" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1729323916903194639) 2023-11-28T02:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The beads are extraordinary: gray moonstone with peach inclusions; old amber rondels; sunstone; Indonesian silver; moonstone; cloud jasper; crackling fire agate; amber; cherry amber; black moonstone; bloodstone; and Kambaba jasper all to pick up all the shades of the cabochons" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1730024433514168387) 2023-11-30T00:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "It's big bold elegant and phenomenally powerful. It's also a perfect gift for someone special. You can order it via the form here:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1730024553206923634) 2023-11-30T00:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The band is a dual-strand style formed of [--] lengths of sterling silver triangle wire of a decently heavy gauge soldered seamlessly together at each end then spread gently apart at the top center to hold the focal. This "wire" is molded as a perfect equilateral triangle shape" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1730758668470354144) 2023-12-02T01:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Here Wings chose to keep the stampwork simple: a single stamp in the form of a radiant point alternating all the way down all four upper angles in a positive/negative pattern that evokes lightning bolts" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1730758824049713171) 2023-12-02T01:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The band is saw-cut freehand wide at the top center but scalloped in long graceful symmetrically flowing lines so that it narrows slightly at the center of the underside the whole look and feel like flowing water" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1731090559765561399) 2023-12-02T23:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "That effect is enhanced by the detail of its surface all of it hammered meticulously by hand capturing the look and feel and animating spirit of sunlight upon wave and crest in river lake or sea" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1731090658260320312) 2023-12-02T23:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1731091144824828011) 2023-12-02T23:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "We DO still need to make sales every week. We've made *one* since the official launch of the holiday season thus far. And the holidays will be here before you know it. So please do continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1731091229511963099) 2023-12-02T23:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1731131945835524139) 2023-12-03T02:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "We DO still need to make sales every week. We've made *one* sale since the T-Day start of the official "holiday season." And the holidays will be here before you know it. So please do continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1731132006187278463) 2023-12-03T02:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1731519348974707151) 2023-12-04T03:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "We DO still need to make sales every week. We've made only a couple since the official launch of the holiday season thus far. But the holidays will be here before you know it. So please do continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1731519408756113514) 2023-12-04T03:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Next up a cuff that seems to go with both the pendant above and the necklace below. This is "The View From the Mountaintop": Sterling silver; Sleeping Beauty turquoise; malachite. Vintage-style freehand stampwork on outer and inner bands:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1731880917369823474) 2023-12-05T03:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The other necklace from Wings's signature series "The Four Seasons"; this is "Summer: Wildflower Meadow Under a Midday Sky": Pendant is sterling silver; orbicular malachite; chrysocolla in malachite:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1731881203048100050) 2023-12-05T03:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "All right tonight's thread of inventory selections. I'm going to do the other pairs of earrings from the same informal series as today's featured work. Yes I know I did them not that long ago but 1) they'll make great holiday gifts and 2) I'm too beat to do anything more" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1732224956166291967) 2023-12-06T02:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "So remember today's are the most recent pair called "Light On the Water": Sterling silver; OLD seafoam green turquoise wit tiny bronze-y matrix patches; all freehand saw- scallop- score and stampwork; all hand-wrought bezel" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1732225193307992253) 2023-12-06T02:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "So we still need help. Still need shares. Still need testimonials. Still need *sales*. All the more so since I am so profoundly disabled by lupus and rheumatoid arthritis right now" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1732973579120361717) 2023-12-08T04:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Also It's a chance to score some absolutely extraordinary one-of-a-kind Indigenous wearable and other art in styles you won't see anywhere else" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1732973616193753555) 2023-12-08T04:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "All right let's get tonight's inventory thread done. I'm way way behind have been all week which is why everything's so late and I'm gonna keep it short. Today's #TBT feature was a ring so I'm going to do [--] current rings. You'll see the connections in a moment" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1732977363233931309) 2023-12-08T04:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "See the stampwork on that band It just so happens tht we have one of Wings's two-stone wrap rings stamped in that same design. This is "Beneath the Sun's Red Eye": Sterling silver; square garnet cabs; Eyes of Spirit around the band:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1732977681535475792) 2023-12-08T04:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "From there we segue into another 2-stone wrap ring no Eyes of Spirit but geometric all the same. This is "Weaving the Blanket of Night": Sterling silver; old royal lapis ovals; Art Deco-ish heavy-gauge pattern wire:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1732978015985160451) 2023-12-08T04:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Third and finally it's a 2-stone ring that's less a wrap than a spiral. This is "Rising On the Smoke": Sterling silver; faceted rainbow moonstone; Water Birds around a convex half-round surface; Art Deco butterflies inside the inner band:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1732978234558669170) 2023-12-08T04:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The chrysoprase and yellow agate are those twisted glass barrel all of them old. The yellow agate renders orange-y here on-screen but IRL they're much more an actual golden-yellow. The whole strand SHIMMERS" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1733294069827452955) 2023-12-09T01:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The pair of earrings is called "Mist At Daybreak": Sterling silver; Columbia jade; ultra-high-grade Labradorite; high-grade citrine; bloodstone; ocean jasper" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1733294222021922973) 2023-12-09T01:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Okay time for tonight's thread of inventory selections. it will relate to only one part of today's feature: the gemstone-bead necklace no coordinating earrings. And it's late it's been a hell of a long painful week I'm beat and it's gonna be short: three of them" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1733333403234423030) 2023-12-09T03:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Tonight it's greens & the first has plenty of that. This is "The Mystical Flames of Falling Stars": Beads: Aquamarine; OLD faceted bottle-green glass; Picasso jasper; snowflake obsidian; rainbow moonstone;black moonstone; selenite; sterling silver:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1733333975777890351) 2023-12-09T03:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Second is one with small green accents but perfectly suited to this time of year. This is "Changing Seasons": Genuine hand-craved mahogany imported from Malawi; carnelian; picture jasper; bloodstone; ocean jasper:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1733334235535331743) 2023-12-09T03:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The edges of the pine cone slice look gilded and an eagle appears in it. Legs are hand-formed strands of sterling silver pattern wire; tail and bail are triangular flares deeply stamped. The beads are hand-selected to pick up all the shades of the pendant cabochons:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1733670226263409046) 2023-12-10T02:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Old ultra-high-grade chrysocolla to frame the bail; small iron pyrite orbs; jet barrels; golden Pietersite; a gradient of ocean jasper sterling silver electric green chrome diopside jade; blue spiderweb turquoise in [--] sizes; and tiny diamond-cut sterling silver anchor beads" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1733670395360969141) 2023-12-10T02:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Sterling silver; ultra-high-grade water-web Kingman turquoise; old OLD lightly polished turquoise nuggets from Wings's private collection. The pendant is strung on a strand of hand-made sterling silver round beads all burnished to a beautifully aged look" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1733970735390236689) 2023-12-10T22:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The pendant is saw-cut freehand with a gentle Florentine finish. The stampwork's simple: eyes like sacred hoops; scaled feet tipped in lodge motifs; radiant light around the edge of the shell; on the bail symbols honoring the stars the sacred directions Spirit's Eye medicine" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1733970895067320751) 2023-12-10T22:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Wings has repeated two rows down the edges each with points turned inward toward the center; the 3rd and 4th rows pair lines of thee same symbols at their open bases forming a diamond-like radiant Eye of Spirit and thus creating two rows of negative-space Eyes of Spirit" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1736550240923377964) 2023-12-18T00:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "At the top sits an extraordinary composite cabochon of orange and white spiny oyster shell heat-treated to meld it with copper: It looks like fire in snow. It's a giant ellipse set here into a scalloped bezel edged in twisted silver" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1736550432468848918) 2023-12-18T00:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "All right tonight's inventory thread or part of it at least. First four . . . plus two because we have two other new items that were posted only a couple of days ago and they really should be included here. Two pairs of earrings and two cuffs still awaiting descriptions" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1736602726359031975) 2023-12-18T04:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "These are all pins and we'll start with the older of the holiday-specific ones. "This is Resin Berry Bough": Sterling silver; amber; carnelian; jade. All saw-cut and stamped freehand:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1736602894663864338) 2023-12-18T04:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "First up earrings both of which I absolutely love. This pair of traditional conchas is called "A Rainbow of Light": Sterling silver; Ethiopian opal:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1736626274884612296) 2023-12-18T05:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Second is the latest in the informal series of radiant earrings he's been creating lately. This is "A Spirit of Fire": Sterling silver; carnelian:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1736626497077858372) 2023-12-18T05:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Now the cuffs both of heavy-gauge triangle wire. This is "Watching the Medicine Grow": Solid sterling silver; repeating deep stampwork down each upper apex:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1736626771615977574) 2023-12-18T05:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "And lastly tonight a slightly extended-length cuff "In a Sacred Light": Solid sterling silver; radiant suns down one upper apex; kiva-steps pattern down the other; hand-made ingot sunbursts overlaid at each end:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1736627069466145099) 2023-12-18T05:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "So we still need help. Still need shares. Still need testimonials. Still need *sales*. All the more so since I am so profoundly disabled by lupus and rheumatoid arthritis right now" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1736916447581130928) 2023-12-19T01:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Also It's a chance to score some absolutely extraordinary one-of-a-kind Indigenous wearable and other art in styles you won't see anywhere else" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1736916496637624708) 2023-12-19T01:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "There's more gold & coral in this shot but the hints of red are there too and they link to today's featured work of wearable art. It's an all-new pair of earrings completed only two days ago called "A Spirit of Fire": Sterling silver; carnelian" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1737273550254587980) 2023-12-20T00:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "These are part of Wings's recurrent and ongoing radiant series of traditional-style earrings each resembling the other but every pair unique. These are slightly larger than the others the better to accommodate the somewhat larger stones" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1737273624204353586) 2023-12-20T00:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Each is saw-cut entirely freehand with articulated leaping legs and minimalist stampwork on hooves tail ears antlers & eye. This one also bears a wending heartline along his side the arrow pointed not in the direction of inhalation but of his leaping into the air to fly" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1738711870910181646) 2023-12-24T00:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "His red nose is a small round garnet cabochon fiery and luminous set into a saw-toothed bezel. No it's not Christmas Eve quite yet but he needs time to prepare" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1738711930494497217) 2023-12-24T00:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1738712285286474013) 2023-12-24T00:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "We DO still need to make sales every week. We've made only this holiday season thus far. Christmas is less than [--] days away but there will always be those who need a gift later as well. So please do continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1738712381247865245) 2023-12-24T00:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog it's a pair of all-new works for the winter holiday season perfect for what some traditions regard as the holiest night of the year:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1739067853528256661) 2023-12-24T23:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Today it's two works perfectly suited to Christmas Eve but also to the wider season beyond. Both are from one of Wings's longest-running signature series some [--] years and more his Christmas/holiday/evergreen tree pins" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1739067953818350051) 2023-12-24T23:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I include all three descriptors because the buyers of them have not been confined to folks who celebrate Christmas. Both are new completed within the last week or so" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1739067996549833083) 2023-12-24T23:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1739068687943188495) 2023-12-24T23:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "We DO still need to make sales every week. We've made only a few this holiday season thus far. Christmas is tomorrow but there will always be those who need a gift later as well. So please do continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1739068733631676919) 2023-12-24T23:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "As always no photo by Wings here. You have to go to the post. It's worth it. It's magic" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1739482124242333754) 2023-12-26T03:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The photo though That seems to me to be the perfect image for Christmas Eve/Christmas night. It's not exactly; it is from [--] years ago almost to the day but New Year's rather than Christmas" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1739482165480759625) 2023-12-26T03:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1739855571334091001) 2023-12-27T03:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "We DO still need to make sales every week. We've made only a few this holiday season thus far. Christmas is over unless you celebrate thru Jan [--] but there will always be those who need a gift later. So please continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1739855778897690928) 2023-12-27T03:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Today's featured work is small and deceptively simple in appearance a pendant called "The Last of the Storm": Sterling silver; apple coral; Labradorite" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1740192853547216933) 2023-12-28T02:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "It's built around an old cabochon of apple coral with extraordinary color & internal texture. Apple coral's both natural & not; it's real coral scrap pieces left over after cutting & cabbing heat-treated to meld them together into blocks that can be cut and cabbed in turn" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1740193047248592978) 2023-12-28T02:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "This is an old specimen and it's glorious a sizeable rectangle with rounded corners and a beveled top edge; the colors are orange and crimson and scarlet and a little bit of violet whorled together" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1740193097756426692) 2023-12-28T02:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "It's set into a scalloped bezel edged with twisted silver in what I call a dot/dash design: one strand of smooth silver twisted with two strands of already-twisted silver creating glorious texture" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1740193133395415114) 2023-12-28T02:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1740193506277367842) 2023-12-28T02:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "We DO still need to make sales every week. We've made only a few this holiday season thus far. Xmas is over unless you celebrate thru 01/06 but there will always be those who need a gift later. So please do continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1740193648929919022) 2023-12-28T02:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "It's #TBT at The NDN Silver Blog with a #ThrowbackThursday work that dates back only about six weeks to a special commission from a client and friend a holiday gift for a family member in one of the whimsical shapes of the season:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1740512312245846365) 2023-12-28T23:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "This week's #TBT featured work is a throwback only to about six weeks ago and a special commission by a client and friend a Christmas gift for a family member" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1740512396626866506) 2023-12-28T23:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "And the saw-work of silver so finely milled on one side was so painstakingly difficult that Wings has sworn he's never doing it again" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1740512756502323708) 2023-12-28T23:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The garlands on this are long radiant arcs like suns and moons strung together; the ornaments are layered hearts and 5-pointed stars with one 8-pointed star atop the tree. Snowflakes dust the boughs all across it" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1740512840459628908) 2023-12-28T23:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1740513233818329193) 2023-12-28T23:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "We DO still need to make sales every week. We've made only a few this holiday season. Christmas is over unless you celebrate through 01/06 but there will always be those who need a gift later. So please do continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1740513437514674499) 2023-12-28T23:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1740858263191892222) 2023-12-29T22:12Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "We DO still need to make sales every week. We've made only a few this holiday season thus far. Xmas is over unless you celebrate through Epiphany but there will always be those who need a gift later. So please do continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1740858388320551008) 2023-12-29T22:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Today's featured work comes from one of Wings's recently-revived signature series one of traditionally-designed pairs of dangle earrings. Of its series this is my personal favorite. It's called "Little Winter Moons": Sterling silver; gray moonstone" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1741217645339480138) 2023-12-30T22:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "This is an old pattern a radiant one that also evokes the look and feel of petals feathers and Eyes of Spirit. The earrings are saw-cut and scalloped entirely freehand the top and bottom fanned in a series of gently rounded arcs" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1741217712951771540) 2023-12-30T22:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "From the more widely scalloped center lines scored equally freehand radiate outward both up and down. Each line separates the individual rays conjoined at their open ends by a sunrise-like motif each linking to the next via a tiny hoop" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1741217779985121584) 2023-12-30T22:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "At center larger radiant sunrise/-set; or moonrise/-set symbols embrace the spectacular focal stones: a pair of chatoyant gray moonstone cabochons round and domed set into plain bezels where the glow with all the icy luminescence of the moons for which the earrings are named" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741217903989666168) 2023-12-30T22:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category. http://wingssilverwork.com http://wingssilverwork.com" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1741218019530146079) 2023-12-30T22:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "We DO still need to make sales every week. We've made only a few this holiday season. Christmas is over unless you celebrate through 01/06 but there will always be those who need a gift later. So please do continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741218370232709283) 2023-12-30T22:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog it's a work for new days and new worlds new beginnings just visible on the dawn horizonof this last day of the calendar year:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1741550282163806576) 2023-12-31T20:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Today's featured work is a pair of vintage-style earrings wrought in an old traditional tab design with absolutely radiant freehand stampwork. These are called "The Dawn Horizon": Sterling silver" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1741550573680463882) 2023-12-31T20:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1741550948718428291) 2023-12-31T20:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "We DO still need to make sales every week. We've made only a few this holiday season. Christmas is over unless you celebrate through Epiphany but there will always be those who need a gift later. So please do continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1741551046303031399) 2023-12-31T20:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "And we really really need to start [----] off on a better footing than we were able to find through all of [----]. That means essentially making at least one sale every week. So please do continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741927892161028303) 2024-01-01T21:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Also It's a chance to score some absolutely extraordinary one-of-a-kind Indigenous wearable and other art in styles you won't see anywhere else" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1741927928341107198) 2024-01-01T21:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Folks this one's local. This sweet baby didn't make it and her human's left with vet bills. $300 to make goal: https://www.gofundme.com/f/helping-my-brother-recoup-just-a-portionutm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer https://www.gofundme.com/f/helping-my-brother-recoup-just-a-portionutm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1742021704812261541) 2024-01-02T03:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The 2nd cuff is called "Watching the Medicine Grow": Also solid sterling silver:" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1742331441663680851) 2024-01-02T23:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "It's a scant 6" of the same heavy-gauge triangle wire this time stamped in a compound motif of Eye of Spirit above flowering medicine on both upper angles: protection and healing life and light" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1742331574237143150) 2024-01-02T23:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "This is an extraordinary work of Indigenous silversmithing using a variety of traditional techniques to create a truly timeless design. The band is heavy-gauge sterling silver solid and substantial but not bulky nor heavy enough to weigh down the wrist" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743433472931483841) 2024-01-06T00:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "It's saw-cut freehand both edges scalloped in long sweeping elegant arcs. Each arc is stamped freehand along its inner border in a long radiant motif symbols of medicine emergent linking each to the next" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1743433536810750458) 2024-01-06T00:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The cuff focal is extended consisting of five separate repouss sunbursts stamped by hand from the reverse. They form a size gradient smallest at each end largest at center all spaced perfectly evenly and all rising in sharp relief bolding oxidized and glowing in the light" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1743433698253640051) 2024-01-06T00:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "They're linked by a compound design of eight-pointed stars framed by three-strand medicine symbols. At either end a sixteen-pointed symbol that evokes stars petals and the sacred directions is framed by a pair of old-style directional arrows one pointing to each corner" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1743433784190812590) 2024-01-06T00:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "These are old-school earrings a classic small size (about an inch across; when domed 7/8") with equally traditional freehand stampwork" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743801573762125919) 2024-01-07T01:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "That stampwork here consists of a Guiding Star motif at center formed of four separate individual spokes each a textured and elongated point ringed by a corona of radiant sunrise-like motifs linked within the stamp itself by tiny hoops at each end of each arc" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1743801621799473215) 2024-01-07T01:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Each starburst is created individually by hand beginning as a tiny ball of molten sterling silver ingot then formed repouss-fashion stamped from the reverse using a specially-designed tiny anvil and stamp)" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1743801705081569681) 2024-01-07T01:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "This created the explosive radiant motif on the outer surface each ridge rising in sharp relief to the point at center. Each starburst is then overlaid at the very center of the earring so that the spokes of the star seem to emanate from behind it" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1743801768658764055) 2024-01-07T01:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Image one shows the bare branches of the same elm tree as yesterday's against the darkened sky and the bare stand of cottonwoods across the highway lit by the sun" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1744921414921302189) 2024-01-10T03:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Image two faces north and slightly east along our fenceline and main ditch; you can see the remnant ice but lack of any water at all in it. You can also see the shadows pointing in the same direction and the gilding of grass and weeping willow branches" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1744921478108508242) 2024-01-10T03:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog it's a work for a world caught between the unseasonal conditions of late spring's thaw and the golden shades of fall: early frost and sunset fire a world still too warm beneath the heat of the sun:" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1745277748250050931) 2024-01-11T02:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Today's featured masterwork is one of only two remaining in Wings's signature series of shield necklaces "The Four Seasons." This one seems at first place a little UNseasonal but the post explains how remarkably apt it truly is" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1745277799349313545) 2024-01-11T02:53Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "This one is called "Fall: Early Frost and Sunset Fire": Pendant is sterling silver; Red Creek jasper; and agatized ocean jasper:" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1745278165029666927) 2024-01-11T02:55Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "This series featured one necklace for each season all outsized with shield-like pendants in shapes that evoked stars flowers the winds and the sacred directions each with [--] large cabochons at the cardinal points and [--] smaller ones at the ordinals around a central stone" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1745278393086882213) 2024-01-11T02:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "All stones point inward toward the center which consists of an extraordinary square of agatized ocean jasper icy white over forest greens literally the "early frost" of the name" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1745278554235896217) 2024-01-11T02:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "All cabs are set into scalloped bezels and edged with twisted silver. The pendant hangs from a simple lightly flared bail stamped down its center in paired radiant triangle motifs that together form illuminating Eyes of Spirit" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1745278656656916787) 2024-01-11T02:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "This week's #TBT featured work is one that dates back at least [--] possibly as long as [--] years ago. It's a ring that was part of one of Wings's very informal series of layered-bezel works largely necklaces and rings" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1745611000769052749) 2024-01-12T00:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "This one is "layered" only nominally with a single flanged base surrounding the bezel. The ring was substantial band formed of sterling silver half-round wire of a decently heavy gauge. Half-round is flat on the underside the inner band convex on the top the outer surface" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1745611173402386638) 2024-01-12T00:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Today's featured work is a cuff one created using multiple traditional techniques. It's called "Earth Flowering In the Light": Sterling silver; malachite" [X Link](https://x.com/WingsNDNSilver/status/1746702902167769220) 2024-01-15T01:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"We'll start with the stone (which is technically not a stone at all but a mix of shell and metal). Thee composite cabochons featured metal matrices are relatively new. They're not terribly costly usually but they ARE fragile"
X Link 2020-07-09T03:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Yup. This is "Fall: Early Frost and Sunset Fire": All [--] in this series were created to honor the winds and directions the stars and the petals of flowers. Now do you see why I say it looks like a shield http://wingssilverwork.com/fall-early-frost-and-sunset-fire-necklace-2000/ http://wingssilverwork.com/fall-early-frost-and-sunset-fire-necklace-2000/"
X Link 2022-10-15T02:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"That pendant is every bit as big as it looks; it's solid sterling silver. Edges saw-cut and scalloped freehand in one go; [--] large Red Creek jasper daggers at the cardinal directions; [--] smaller ones at the ordinals. Agatized ocean jasper at center. Spare leaf/flower stampwork:"
X Link 2022-10-15T02:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The flared edges got "fletched" via textured parallel lines repeated on diagonals. In between a pair of deeply scored parallel lines with negative space between running the length of the shaft ending in a large point at the top of the bowl"
X Link 2023-06-23T02:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I spoke with the vet's office today when we made our contribution to Sadie's fund. They've raised only $200 so far; $800 is still needed. You can help defray that"
X Link 2023-06-29T03:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Both date back to the first of August of last year right at the heart of what should be our monsoon season which means purple stormclouds and purple fire in the sky"
X Link 2023-06-30T00:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The post goes over what we mean when we talk about "calibrated cabs" and how they're not actually identical even though they're presented that way. These were hand-selected from Wings entire inventory for shape size doming height and color"
X Link 2023-06-30T00:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"He also chose to use extended butterfly backs which as you can see in the image look rather floral-like too . . . but their real charm is in the fact that the size matches the stud so both sides of the lobe are held securely. Prevents tipping pulling loss"
X Link 2023-06-30T00:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"As always Wings never creates any two works that are exactly the same and you might wonder how you can make simple gemstone studs unique but believe me: It can be done. you can commission a version uniquely your own via the form here:"
X Link 2023-06-30T00:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"In the meantime local Good Girl Sadie still needs help to cover surgery for her tumor removal. Here's a mini-thread to explain and the number to donate is in it:"
X Link 2023-06-30T00:44Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Also I forgot to post Wings's newest here the extraordinary cuff that he completed two days ago; it's up on the site now. This is "Warbonnet Sky": Sterling silver; natural Fox turquoise from Nevada:"
X Link 2023-06-30T01:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Why the name Well take a look at the fanned radiant feather motifs around the focal and then remember Thunderbird aiming his lightning-bolt arrows through the storm. Here's a top view:"
X Link 2023-06-30T01:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The focal is one piece with a "cross" to honor the winds and the sacred directions at the center its spokes saw-cut freehand to articulate them from the surrounding silver all four texturized freehand with a single tiny divot-end stamp:"
X Link 2023-06-30T01:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category"
X Link 2023-06-30T01:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"And we will continue to need to make consistent sales all year so shares are much appreciated. Between this year's tax bill and quarterly prepayments against next year's we'll be paying on it all year long"
X Link 2023-06-30T01:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@AnyFishAnyTime INNIT He was planning on a belt buckle; then he shifted to bolo; finally he decided on bracelet. Obviously this was always meant to be its final form LOL. But he spent A LOT of planning and contemplation time on every stage of it"
X Link 2023-06-30T03:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"And we will continue to need to make consistent sales all year so shares are much appreciated. Between this year's tax bill and quarterly prepayments against next year's we'll be paying on it all year long"
X Link 2023-07-09T20:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"In addition to next year's prepayments all of which are still due I have a dog that will probably need surgery a husband in need of $25K in dental repairs after the last one botched it beyond recovery and a drop of $250+/month in my Patreon"
X Link 2023-07-09T20:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I juggled some things and eked out $100 and I hope you'll match it all part MORE whatever. A masjid (mosque) in Portales NM has been vandalized [--] times in [--] days. Desecrated (urinating on carpets pouring alcohol on the Quran)"
X Link 2023-07-09T20:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"That's in addition to hacking the walls and doors and seats to pieces spray-painting the walls destroying the A/C (it gets above [---] there this time of year). And living a picture of Jesus on all the mess just so they'd know what kind of violent white supremacy was involved"
X Link 2023-07-09T20:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog it's an edition of Red Willow Spirit for a rainy season potentially renewed and for the gifts that the last of the storm leaves behind:"
X Link 2023-08-15T23:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Two images today linked by a single work of wearable art. The photos are of a piece with yesterday's as I said then: shot by Wings in digital format on the same day only moments apart. Yesterday's shows the front side of the structures; today's the back"
X Link 2023-08-15T23:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Today's NDN Silver Insta: Follow us at:"
X Link 2023-08-25T01:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"And again I cannot overemphasize how badly we need sales. It's grim here not just for us but for everybody. So please share and please keep us in mind for purchases in the days weeks and months ahead"
X Link 2023-08-26T21:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Second a pair of personal favorites "A Sacred Fire": Saw-cut freehand including the ajour mirrored "kiva steps" design at center:"
X Link 2023-09-02T04:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Third another recent pair "Nebula": One-inch sterling silver conchas hand-scored stamped and domed set at the center with hand-made ingot repouss starbursts:"
X Link 2023-09-02T04:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"All right let's do a quick inventory thread. VERY quick tonight. Rough day pain-wise and I still have a lot to do both on- and offline"
X Link 2023-09-06T02:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"And the third and final pair is ribbon turquoise. These are "A Braided Earth": Sterling silver; ribbon turquoise might be Kingman; it's almost opalescent. Organic single bezel backing around the [--] handmade ingot rosettes:"
X Link 2023-09-06T03:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"If you're thinking of leaving Twitter (or even if you're not) follow us over at bluesky here: @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social"
X Link 2023-09-06T23:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"And after [--] months of one of our worst sales years ever I have GOT to bring in some steady sales now. Holidays will be here before you know it; please share our links and keep us in mind for purchases"
X Link 2023-09-06T23:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category"
X Link 2023-09-07T02:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"And as I've been saying after [--] months of one of our worst sales years ever I have GOT to bring in some sales. Please share our links and keep us in mind for purchases. Holidays will be here before you know it"
X Link 2023-09-07T02:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog it's a work that might seem traditionally colonial to outsiders but is in fact remarkably subversive a tribute to spirits far older and more eternal than those of invading populations:"
X Link 2023-09-09T23:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It's a necklace today called "The Stars and the Sacred Directions": Sterling silver; deep teal blue turquoise with inky black matrix part of a parcel of unknown origin:"
X Link 2023-09-09T23:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"It's a revival of one of Wings's old old vintage-style designs. It's also through a certain type of lens something that seems to be that thing he says he won't do except for the rare commission for a friend: a cruciform cross"
X Link 2023-09-09T23:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Why should be obvious. And in an explosion of the universe's irony meter guess what the single most requested item by tourists was when we had our brick-and-mortar gallery YUP. Every. single. year. Neither cultural- nor self-awareness was their strong suit"
X Link 2023-09-09T23:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"All right today's work was in part a tribute to the Sacred Directions. So for tonight's inventory selections I'm going to feature three items earring pairs all whose form and shape do likewise"
X Link 2023-09-10T01:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The wrap holds the focal perfectly and the band is beautifully stamped freehand with elongated Eyes of Spirit between rounded cloud formations at either border:"
X Link 2023-09-12T00:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Now there is another cuff that would coordinate with the necklace particularly the reds in it. This one is called "An Elemental Love" and it's an old-style hook bracelet: Sterling silver; Rosarita:"
X Link 2023-09-12T00:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Jill Biden has COVID. What the entire FUCK are these people doing"
X Link 2023-09-12T23:39Z [----] followers, 17.2K engagements
"I am so tired. Absolutely exhausted. This colonizer country wants us dead and they love rubbing our noses in it"
X Link 2023-09-12T23:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Nah not doing it tonight. Too disgusted and exhausted to care. I can't keep pushing myself beyond my limits and in a society that prefers us dead why give them that"
X Link 2023-09-13T01:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Probably won't do inventory threads for a while other than the daily post. It's too much and we've got a whole holiday season to get through it starts with October 1st essentially. So probably nothing between now and then. It was stupid to think I could"
X Link 2023-09-13T01:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"It's #ThrowbackThursday at The NDN Silver Blog with a #TBT work that dates back close to a decade perhaps a little more:"
X Link 2023-09-14T23:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It's molded commercially in industrial-length molds (triangle square round half-round bead pattern braid twisted etc.). Then it's cut to order and it's popular among metalsmiths for cuffs and ring bands"
X Link 2023-09-16T21:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The first [--] listed above can all be stamped on their outer surface and this was no exception. On the lower band on each upper angle Wings chose simple Eyes of Spirit linked by single scored lines:"
X Link 2023-09-16T21:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"They're linked here by one of Wings's more recent pairs of earrings one in his latest quartet one of which is sold in a sometime/intermittent series of multi-stone multi-element traditional dangles"
X Link 2023-09-20T00:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"This pair is called "Aspen Leaf and Moonlight": yes I know the images are of sunlight not moonglow but the principle holds. Sterling silver; lime jade:"
X Link 2023-09-20T00:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Also that particular one has special significance for me: my sister whose walking-on anniversary is coming up in less than three weeks. Perhaps it was her"
X Link 2023-09-26T02:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"But go read the post. Context matters and one aspect of that is the leaves in the image. Because leaves will play a role along with butterflies and other spirits the rest of this week"
X Link 2023-09-26T02:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog it's a work for these days of an adobe sun low and warm and setting our world aflame in the most beautiful of ways:"
X Link 2023-10-02T01:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Today it's 1/3 of a trio of related works created expressly to coordinate but able to stand on their own and so offered for sale separately. There's another thing about this trio: They were originally created for spring but they're perfect for fall too"
X Link 2023-10-02T01:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"This is the necklace from Wings's limited signature series "The Spring Elementals: Fire." Today It speaks to me entirely of fall shadow and light. It's called "Adobe Sun":"
X Link 2023-10-02T01:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"It looked cosmic: like nebulae like new stars being born. Our friend was delighted with it. Fast-forward to this year. She wanted a ring to complete this informal "set" and she had two specifications:"
X Link 2023-10-06T01:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"First the stone should be one of the marquise-cut kyanite cabs to match the barrette. Second she wanted a band like that of another ring in inventory already sold with unique features: split on either end strands spread to uplift the bezel"
X Link 2023-10-06T01:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"That band had been made with sterling silver pattern wire heavy-gauge half-round in shape and molded into a flowering vine motif. She liked the design so he used the same pattern wire to create her band as well"
X Link 2023-10-06T01:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"He split the ends and gently spread them up and out after shaping the rest of the band. It created a sliver of open space beneath the focal on the sides and formed an open-space diamond shape like an Eye of Spirit directly underneath the bezel"
X Link 2023-10-06T01:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"And while we've had a couple of sales and thus some breathing room this is still our worst sales year in recent memory. October 1st also marked the official start of our 3-month holiday creative season which means 16-hour days [--] days a week for [--] months for both of us"
X Link 2023-10-06T01:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The holidays will be here before you know it. And the sales we make during this period used to be what kept us alive for the first half of the year to come. This year We're too far behind. So please share the links and keep us in mind for purchases"
X Link 2023-10-06T01:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"And while we've had a couple of sales and thus some breathing room this is still our worst sales year in recent memory. October 1st also marked the official start of our 3-month holiday creative season which means 16-hour days [--] days a week for [--] months for both of us"
X Link 2023-10-07T01:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The holidays will be here before you know it. And the sales we make during this period used to be what kept us alive for the first half of the year to come. This year We're too far behind. So please share the links and keep us in mind for purchases"
X Link 2023-10-07T01:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"It's my birthday and I want two things: First I want to raise funds for a local elder and one of Wings's oldest friends a fabulous Indigenous artist who's been hospitalized unable to work and is facing more medical issues. The thread is here:"
X Link 2023-10-20T18:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"We are stalled at the total from two nights ago $1228.48. I'd like to double that before the weekend at least. We're using our PayPal account as a pass-through. You can donate here and specify "FOR FRANK" in the notes section:"
X Link 2023-10-20T18:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Again wide 9-gauge band this one also in paired radiant motifs edged by cloud-like crescents and again a reason why sizing is not a simple matter. Bezel wrought entirely by hand each parallel segment saw-cut by hand and filed smooth"
X Link 2023-10-24T01:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"And that stone So old so longn part of his private collection he no longer recalls how he acquired it; it might have been passed down to him by his late father. Technically there's no proving origin but given advanced age electric blue freeform surface pyrite Morenci"
X Link 2023-10-24T01:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"And while we've had a few sales and thus some limited breathing room this is still our worst sales year in recent memory. October 1st also marked the official start of our 3-month holiday creative season which means 16-hour days [--] days a week for [--] months for both of us"
X Link 2023-11-01T23:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The holidays will be here before you know it. And the sales we make during this period used to be what kept us alive for the first half of the year to come. This year We're too far behind. So please share the links and keep us in mind for purchases"
X Link 2023-11-01T23:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Second is a larger concha-style pair called "Flowering Worlds": These are hand-milled in a bold floral pattern equal parts Art Nouveau and Flower Power domed by hand in big bold half-spheres. Sterling silver wires"
X Link 2023-11-04T00:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Third is a more traditional pair of conchas called "Nebula": These are smaller only lightly domed with radiant freehand stampwork embracing a central Guiding Star atop which is overlaid a hand-made ingot starburst. Sterling silver wires"
X Link 2023-11-04T00:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Fourth and finally and also the newest pair old-style tab earrings; these are called "The Dawn Horizon": Silver tabs saw-cut long and slender; a entirely freehanded radiant sunrise flanked by 5-pointed stars top and bottom; sterling silver wires"
X Link 2023-11-04T00:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"So I'm compromising. Screenshots of his work with the threads for the day deleted at day's end. So be sure to look for them by early evening each day"
X Link 2023-11-20T01:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"This is an old vintage style a radiant design in which the rays vaguely resemble headdresses. Wings last created these nearly twenty years ago; now he has four pairs in inventory [--] with stones [--] without of which this pair is the second most recently made"
X Link 2023-11-20T01:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog it's a Monday Photo Meditation for a week that has begun with the first real snow of the season:"
X Link 2023-11-21T02:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"No photo here of course or anywhere but the link. I never post Wings's photos on social media. But this one is brilliant literally; intense; stormy; hauntingly beautiful. Go look"
X Link 2023-11-21T02:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"These earrings that loosely coordinates; not created to match but they do. These are "Raining Sun": Slender sterling silver frames saw-cut freehand; suspended in each teardrops of more rare Russian simbircite. Freehand stampwork/ingot detail:"
X Link 2023-11-21T04:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"More earrings first in two related pairs. This is "Chrysalis Sun": Sterling silver; amber. Fiery sun-like orbs at the center of old-school repouss Butterfly conchas made by hand and fully 3D:"
X Link 2023-11-21T04:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"It's just interesting to me that most of the time that was not lapis although he's used it widely in other contexts. Here it's the color of nightfall of wild summer monsoons and stormy winter skies. Like what we can expect tomorrow they say"
X Link 2023-11-24T01:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The pin itself is based on the general form and shape of the iconic North House over a millennium old inhabited that entire time and the house into which he was born. The arrangement of rooflines of windows and doors of ladders and accent stone is always different"
X Link 2023-11-24T01:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"This week's Friday Feature is a single powerful work shown from four different vantage points. It's a cuff bracelet called Beneath the Surface": Sterling silver; royal lapis lazuli"
X Link 2023-11-25T00:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The band is formed of heavy-gauge sterling silver half-round "wire" with some [--] separate lines scored freehand into its upper surface. They're incised deeply on diagonals the total split in half and leaning inward facing each other and wrap all the way around the band"
X Link 2023-11-25T00:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Second the only other pair in this informal series in current inventory "The Moon Rides the Winds of Night": Sterling silver; onyx; rainbow moonstone. Again hand-made sterling silver ingot starbursts and repouss Eye of Spirit pendants:"
X Link 2023-11-26T01:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Third is "Stardust Blues" traditional concha earrings: Sterling silver; lapis lazuli. Hand-domed with Guiding Star imagery at center ringed by radiant suns:"
X Link 2023-11-26T01:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Fourth is the only other one in inventory in the same informal series as the concha pair above; this is "Nebula": Solid sterling silver. Again hand-domed slightly different Guiding stars/suns and a hand-made ingot starburst overlay at center:"
X Link 2023-11-26T01:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Fifth is more solid silver; these are called "The Dawn Horizon": Classic tab earrings of solid lightweight sterling silver cut long and narrow stamped freehand with a radiant horizon on the vertical between bookending stars:"
X Link 2023-11-26T01:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"They're formed of small silver medallions perfectly round domed as they are here they measure 7/8" across but flat they'd be 1""
X Link 2023-11-26T20:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"They're scored freehand eight rays each emanating out from the center underneath the bezel. The end of each ray terminates in a tiny hoop flanking the radiant lodge motif that sits between each line. It speaks of illumination but also of shelter and ceremony"
X Link 2023-11-26T20:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"On that day the skies were just beginning to clear from a real winter storm the kind that used to be ordinary here: IOW measured not in inches but in feet"
X Link 2023-11-27T21:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The snow was still falling lightly as the storm moved out eastward between the peaks but the sun shone brightly through beneath seeming to set sky and air alike on fire and turn those falling snowflakes into crystal flames"
X Link 2023-11-27T21:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"All right Cyber Monday. We've had zero sales this biggest holiday weekend. It's been a frankly terrible year across the board and to make it next year I've got to bring in a LOT more over the next four weeks. So far Zip. So. Tonight's thread of inventory selections"
X Link 2023-11-28T01:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"For a bracelet One from spring "Firewheel Prairie": Memory wire; old amber; iron pyrite; Ethiopian silver; sardonyx; mookaite; cherry amber; that same incredible fire agate; faceted citrine;old metallic glass trade beads; jade; chrome diopside"
X Link 2023-11-28T02:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Next up. one of the few trios still together from summer. The necklace "The Moons of Summer": Beads are onyx; old amber glass; crackling fire agate; pink fluorite; pearl; snowflake obsidian; old peacock-finish glass; jet; basaltic lava rock"
X Link 2023-11-28T02:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This set is really incredible. The earrings are called "Wildfire Nights": Sterling silver; Pietersite; ultra-high-grade fossilized palm wood; crackling fire agate; onyx"
X Link 2023-11-28T02:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"And the coil here is also $25 less than the others. Not a perfect match but that citrine . . . "The Sacerd Hoop": Memory wire; jet; lapis lazuli; red tiger's eye; garnet; tiger's eye; citrine; white-lip mother-of-pearl shell"
X Link 2023-11-28T02:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Last darker reds for winter. The necklace is called "The Sleeping Ground": Rutilated quartz (clear white with black schorl); rainbow moonstone; snowflake obsidian; jet; tridacna shell; Indonesian silver; gray moonstone; Dolomite; black moonstone"
X Link 2023-11-28T02:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"We DO still need to make sales every week. And the holidays will be here before you know it. So please do continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases"
X Link 2023-11-28T02:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Also It's a chance to score some absolutely extraordinary one-of-a-kind Indigenous wearable and other art in styles you won't see anywhere else"
X Link 2023-11-28T02:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The beads are extraordinary: gray moonstone with peach inclusions; old amber rondels; sunstone; Indonesian silver; moonstone; cloud jasper; crackling fire agate; amber; cherry amber; black moonstone; bloodstone; and Kambaba jasper all to pick up all the shades of the cabochons"
X Link 2023-11-30T00:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"It's big bold elegant and phenomenally powerful. It's also a perfect gift for someone special. You can order it via the form here:"
X Link 2023-11-30T00:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The band is a dual-strand style formed of [--] lengths of sterling silver triangle wire of a decently heavy gauge soldered seamlessly together at each end then spread gently apart at the top center to hold the focal. This "wire" is molded as a perfect equilateral triangle shape"
X Link 2023-12-02T01:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Here Wings chose to keep the stampwork simple: a single stamp in the form of a radiant point alternating all the way down all four upper angles in a positive/negative pattern that evokes lightning bolts"
X Link 2023-12-02T01:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The band is saw-cut freehand wide at the top center but scalloped in long graceful symmetrically flowing lines so that it narrows slightly at the center of the underside the whole look and feel like flowing water"
X Link 2023-12-02T23:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"That effect is enhanced by the detail of its surface all of it hammered meticulously by hand capturing the look and feel and animating spirit of sunlight upon wave and crest in river lake or sea"
X Link 2023-12-02T23:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category"
X Link 2023-12-02T23:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"We DO still need to make sales every week. We've made one since the official launch of the holiday season thus far. And the holidays will be here before you know it. So please do continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases"
X Link 2023-12-02T23:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category"
X Link 2023-12-03T02:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"We DO still need to make sales every week. We've made one sale since the T-Day start of the official "holiday season." And the holidays will be here before you know it. So please do continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases"
X Link 2023-12-03T02:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category"
X Link 2023-12-04T03:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"We DO still need to make sales every week. We've made only a couple since the official launch of the holiday season thus far. But the holidays will be here before you know it. So please do continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases"
X Link 2023-12-04T03:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Next up a cuff that seems to go with both the pendant above and the necklace below. This is "The View From the Mountaintop": Sterling silver; Sleeping Beauty turquoise; malachite. Vintage-style freehand stampwork on outer and inner bands:"
X Link 2023-12-05T03:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The other necklace from Wings's signature series "The Four Seasons"; this is "Summer: Wildflower Meadow Under a Midday Sky": Pendant is sterling silver; orbicular malachite; chrysocolla in malachite:"
X Link 2023-12-05T03:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"All right tonight's thread of inventory selections. I'm going to do the other pairs of earrings from the same informal series as today's featured work. Yes I know I did them not that long ago but 1) they'll make great holiday gifts and 2) I'm too beat to do anything more"
X Link 2023-12-06T02:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"So remember today's are the most recent pair called "Light On the Water": Sterling silver; OLD seafoam green turquoise wit tiny bronze-y matrix patches; all freehand saw- scallop- score and stampwork; all hand-wrought bezel"
X Link 2023-12-06T02:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"So we still need help. Still need shares. Still need testimonials. Still need sales. All the more so since I am so profoundly disabled by lupus and rheumatoid arthritis right now"
X Link 2023-12-08T04:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Also It's a chance to score some absolutely extraordinary one-of-a-kind Indigenous wearable and other art in styles you won't see anywhere else"
X Link 2023-12-08T04:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"All right let's get tonight's inventory thread done. I'm way way behind have been all week which is why everything's so late and I'm gonna keep it short. Today's #TBT feature was a ring so I'm going to do [--] current rings. You'll see the connections in a moment"
X Link 2023-12-08T04:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"See the stampwork on that band It just so happens tht we have one of Wings's two-stone wrap rings stamped in that same design. This is "Beneath the Sun's Red Eye": Sterling silver; square garnet cabs; Eyes of Spirit around the band:"
X Link 2023-12-08T04:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"From there we segue into another 2-stone wrap ring no Eyes of Spirit but geometric all the same. This is "Weaving the Blanket of Night": Sterling silver; old royal lapis ovals; Art Deco-ish heavy-gauge pattern wire:"
X Link 2023-12-08T04:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Third and finally it's a 2-stone ring that's less a wrap than a spiral. This is "Rising On the Smoke": Sterling silver; faceted rainbow moonstone; Water Birds around a convex half-round surface; Art Deco butterflies inside the inner band:"
X Link 2023-12-08T04:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The chrysoprase and yellow agate are those twisted glass barrel all of them old. The yellow agate renders orange-y here on-screen but IRL they're much more an actual golden-yellow. The whole strand SHIMMERS"
X Link 2023-12-09T01:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The pair of earrings is called "Mist At Daybreak": Sterling silver; Columbia jade; ultra-high-grade Labradorite; high-grade citrine; bloodstone; ocean jasper"
X Link 2023-12-09T01:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Okay time for tonight's thread of inventory selections. it will relate to only one part of today's feature: the gemstone-bead necklace no coordinating earrings. And it's late it's been a hell of a long painful week I'm beat and it's gonna be short: three of them"
X Link 2023-12-09T03:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Tonight it's greens & the first has plenty of that. This is "The Mystical Flames of Falling Stars": Beads: Aquamarine; OLD faceted bottle-green glass; Picasso jasper; snowflake obsidian; rainbow moonstone;black moonstone; selenite; sterling silver:"
X Link 2023-12-09T03:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Second is one with small green accents but perfectly suited to this time of year. This is "Changing Seasons": Genuine hand-craved mahogany imported from Malawi; carnelian; picture jasper; bloodstone; ocean jasper:"
X Link 2023-12-09T03:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The edges of the pine cone slice look gilded and an eagle appears in it. Legs are hand-formed strands of sterling silver pattern wire; tail and bail are triangular flares deeply stamped. The beads are hand-selected to pick up all the shades of the pendant cabochons:"
X Link 2023-12-10T02:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Old ultra-high-grade chrysocolla to frame the bail; small iron pyrite orbs; jet barrels; golden Pietersite; a gradient of ocean jasper sterling silver electric green chrome diopside jade; blue spiderweb turquoise in [--] sizes; and tiny diamond-cut sterling silver anchor beads"
X Link 2023-12-10T02:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Sterling silver; ultra-high-grade water-web Kingman turquoise; old OLD lightly polished turquoise nuggets from Wings's private collection. The pendant is strung on a strand of hand-made sterling silver round beads all burnished to a beautifully aged look"
X Link 2023-12-10T22:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The pendant is saw-cut freehand with a gentle Florentine finish. The stampwork's simple: eyes like sacred hoops; scaled feet tipped in lodge motifs; radiant light around the edge of the shell; on the bail symbols honoring the stars the sacred directions Spirit's Eye medicine"
X Link 2023-12-10T22:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Wings has repeated two rows down the edges each with points turned inward toward the center; the 3rd and 4th rows pair lines of thee same symbols at their open bases forming a diamond-like radiant Eye of Spirit and thus creating two rows of negative-space Eyes of Spirit"
X Link 2023-12-18T00:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"At the top sits an extraordinary composite cabochon of orange and white spiny oyster shell heat-treated to meld it with copper: It looks like fire in snow. It's a giant ellipse set here into a scalloped bezel edged in twisted silver"
X Link 2023-12-18T00:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"All right tonight's inventory thread or part of it at least. First four . . . plus two because we have two other new items that were posted only a couple of days ago and they really should be included here. Two pairs of earrings and two cuffs still awaiting descriptions"
X Link 2023-12-18T04:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"These are all pins and we'll start with the older of the holiday-specific ones. "This is Resin Berry Bough": Sterling silver; amber; carnelian; jade. All saw-cut and stamped freehand:"
X Link 2023-12-18T04:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"First up earrings both of which I absolutely love. This pair of traditional conchas is called "A Rainbow of Light": Sterling silver; Ethiopian opal:"
X Link 2023-12-18T05:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Second is the latest in the informal series of radiant earrings he's been creating lately. This is "A Spirit of Fire": Sterling silver; carnelian:"
X Link 2023-12-18T05:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Now the cuffs both of heavy-gauge triangle wire. This is "Watching the Medicine Grow": Solid sterling silver; repeating deep stampwork down each upper apex:"
X Link 2023-12-18T05:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"And lastly tonight a slightly extended-length cuff "In a Sacred Light": Solid sterling silver; radiant suns down one upper apex; kiva-steps pattern down the other; hand-made ingot sunbursts overlaid at each end:"
X Link 2023-12-18T05:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"So we still need help. Still need shares. Still need testimonials. Still need sales. All the more so since I am so profoundly disabled by lupus and rheumatoid arthritis right now"
X Link 2023-12-19T01:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Also It's a chance to score some absolutely extraordinary one-of-a-kind Indigenous wearable and other art in styles you won't see anywhere else"
X Link 2023-12-19T01:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"There's more gold & coral in this shot but the hints of red are there too and they link to today's featured work of wearable art. It's an all-new pair of earrings completed only two days ago called "A Spirit of Fire": Sterling silver; carnelian"
X Link 2023-12-20T00:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"These are part of Wings's recurrent and ongoing radiant series of traditional-style earrings each resembling the other but every pair unique. These are slightly larger than the others the better to accommodate the somewhat larger stones"
X Link 2023-12-20T00:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Each is saw-cut entirely freehand with articulated leaping legs and minimalist stampwork on hooves tail ears antlers & eye. This one also bears a wending heartline along his side the arrow pointed not in the direction of inhalation but of his leaping into the air to fly"
X Link 2023-12-24T00:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"His red nose is a small round garnet cabochon fiery and luminous set into a saw-toothed bezel. No it's not Christmas Eve quite yet but he needs time to prepare"
X Link 2023-12-24T00:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category"
X Link 2023-12-24T00:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"We DO still need to make sales every week. We've made only this holiday season thus far. Christmas is less than [--] days away but there will always be those who need a gift later as well. So please do continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases"
X Link 2023-12-24T00:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog it's a pair of all-new works for the winter holiday season perfect for what some traditions regard as the holiest night of the year:"
X Link 2023-12-24T23:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Today it's two works perfectly suited to Christmas Eve but also to the wider season beyond. Both are from one of Wings's longest-running signature series some [--] years and more his Christmas/holiday/evergreen tree pins"
X Link 2023-12-24T23:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I include all three descriptors because the buyers of them have not been confined to folks who celebrate Christmas. Both are new completed within the last week or so"
X Link 2023-12-24T23:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category"
X Link 2023-12-24T23:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"We DO still need to make sales every week. We've made only a few this holiday season thus far. Christmas is tomorrow but there will always be those who need a gift later as well. So please do continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases"
X Link 2023-12-24T23:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"As always no photo by Wings here. You have to go to the post. It's worth it. It's magic"
X Link 2023-12-26T03:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The photo though That seems to me to be the perfect image for Christmas Eve/Christmas night. It's not exactly; it is from [--] years ago almost to the day but New Year's rather than Christmas"
X Link 2023-12-26T03:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category"
X Link 2023-12-27T03:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"We DO still need to make sales every week. We've made only a few this holiday season thus far. Christmas is over unless you celebrate thru Jan [--] but there will always be those who need a gift later. So please continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases"
X Link 2023-12-27T03:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Today's featured work is small and deceptively simple in appearance a pendant called "The Last of the Storm": Sterling silver; apple coral; Labradorite"
X Link 2023-12-28T02:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"It's built around an old cabochon of apple coral with extraordinary color & internal texture. Apple coral's both natural & not; it's real coral scrap pieces left over after cutting & cabbing heat-treated to meld them together into blocks that can be cut and cabbed in turn"
X Link 2023-12-28T02:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"This is an old specimen and it's glorious a sizeable rectangle with rounded corners and a beveled top edge; the colors are orange and crimson and scarlet and a little bit of violet whorled together"
X Link 2023-12-28T02:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"It's set into a scalloped bezel edged with twisted silver in what I call a dot/dash design: one strand of smooth silver twisted with two strands of already-twisted silver creating glorious texture"
X Link 2023-12-28T02:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category"
X Link 2023-12-28T02:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"We DO still need to make sales every week. We've made only a few this holiday season thus far. Xmas is over unless you celebrate thru 01/06 but there will always be those who need a gift later. So please do continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases"
X Link 2023-12-28T02:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"It's #TBT at The NDN Silver Blog with a #ThrowbackThursday work that dates back only about six weeks to a special commission from a client and friend a holiday gift for a family member in one of the whimsical shapes of the season:"
X Link 2023-12-28T23:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This week's #TBT featured work is a throwback only to about six weeks ago and a special commission by a client and friend a Christmas gift for a family member"
X Link 2023-12-28T23:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"And the saw-work of silver so finely milled on one side was so painstakingly difficult that Wings has sworn he's never doing it again"
X Link 2023-12-28T23:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The garlands on this are long radiant arcs like suns and moons strung together; the ornaments are layered hearts and 5-pointed stars with one 8-pointed star atop the tree. Snowflakes dust the boughs all across it"
X Link 2023-12-28T23:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category"
X Link 2023-12-28T23:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"We DO still need to make sales every week. We've made only a few this holiday season. Christmas is over unless you celebrate through 01/06 but there will always be those who need a gift later. So please do continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases"
X Link 2023-12-28T23:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category"
X Link 2023-12-29T22:12Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"We DO still need to make sales every week. We've made only a few this holiday season thus far. Xmas is over unless you celebrate through Epiphany but there will always be those who need a gift later. So please do continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases"
X Link 2023-12-29T22:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Today's featured work comes from one of Wings's recently-revived signature series one of traditionally-designed pairs of dangle earrings. Of its series this is my personal favorite. It's called "Little Winter Moons": Sterling silver; gray moonstone"
X Link 2023-12-30T22:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"This is an old pattern a radiant one that also evokes the look and feel of petals feathers and Eyes of Spirit. The earrings are saw-cut and scalloped entirely freehand the top and bottom fanned in a series of gently rounded arcs"
X Link 2023-12-30T22:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"From the more widely scalloped center lines scored equally freehand radiate outward both up and down. Each line separates the individual rays conjoined at their open ends by a sunrise-like motif each linking to the next via a tiny hoop"
X Link 2023-12-30T22:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"At center larger radiant sunrise/-set; or moonrise/-set symbols embrace the spectacular focal stones: a pair of chatoyant gray moonstone cabochons round and domed set into plain bezels where the glow with all the icy luminescence of the moons for which the earrings are named"
X Link 2023-12-30T22:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category. http://wingssilverwork.com http://wingssilverwork.com"
X Link 2023-12-30T22:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"We DO still need to make sales every week. We've made only a few this holiday season. Christmas is over unless you celebrate through 01/06 but there will always be those who need a gift later. So please do continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases"
X Link 2023-12-30T22:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog it's a work for new days and new worlds new beginnings just visible on the dawn horizonof this last day of the calendar year:"
X Link 2023-12-31T20:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Today's featured work is a pair of vintage-style earrings wrought in an old traditional tab design with absolutely radiant freehand stampwork. These are called "The Dawn Horizon": Sterling silver"
X Link 2023-12-31T20:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show try turning your device sideways or use desktop mode): Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries" hover over "The Silverwork" CLICK on chosen category"
X Link 2023-12-31T20:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"We DO still need to make sales every week. We've made only a few this holiday season. Christmas is over unless you celebrate through Epiphany but there will always be those who need a gift later. So please do continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases"
X Link 2023-12-31T20:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"And we really really need to start [----] off on a better footing than we were able to find through all of [----]. That means essentially making at least one sale every week. So please do continue to share the links and keep us in mind for purchases"
X Link 2024-01-01T21:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Also It's a chance to score some absolutely extraordinary one-of-a-kind Indigenous wearable and other art in styles you won't see anywhere else"
X Link 2024-01-01T21:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Folks this one's local. This sweet baby didn't make it and her human's left with vet bills. $300 to make goal: https://www.gofundme.com/f/helping-my-brother-recoup-just-a-portionutm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer https://www.gofundme.com/f/helping-my-brother-recoup-just-a-portionutm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer"
X Link 2024-01-02T03:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The 2nd cuff is called "Watching the Medicine Grow": Also solid sterling silver:"
X Link 2024-01-02T23:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"It's a scant 6" of the same heavy-gauge triangle wire this time stamped in a compound motif of Eye of Spirit above flowering medicine on both upper angles: protection and healing life and light"
X Link 2024-01-02T23:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"This is an extraordinary work of Indigenous silversmithing using a variety of traditional techniques to create a truly timeless design. The band is heavy-gauge sterling silver solid and substantial but not bulky nor heavy enough to weigh down the wrist"
X Link 2024-01-06T00:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"It's saw-cut freehand both edges scalloped in long sweeping elegant arcs. Each arc is stamped freehand along its inner border in a long radiant motif symbols of medicine emergent linking each to the next"
X Link 2024-01-06T00:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The cuff focal is extended consisting of five separate repouss sunbursts stamped by hand from the reverse. They form a size gradient smallest at each end largest at center all spaced perfectly evenly and all rising in sharp relief bolding oxidized and glowing in the light"
X Link 2024-01-06T00:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"They're linked by a compound design of eight-pointed stars framed by three-strand medicine symbols. At either end a sixteen-pointed symbol that evokes stars petals and the sacred directions is framed by a pair of old-style directional arrows one pointing to each corner"
X Link 2024-01-06T00:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"These are old-school earrings a classic small size (about an inch across; when domed 7/8") with equally traditional freehand stampwork"
X Link 2024-01-07T01:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"That stampwork here consists of a Guiding Star motif at center formed of four separate individual spokes each a textured and elongated point ringed by a corona of radiant sunrise-like motifs linked within the stamp itself by tiny hoops at each end of each arc"
X Link 2024-01-07T01:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Each starburst is created individually by hand beginning as a tiny ball of molten sterling silver ingot then formed repouss-fashion stamped from the reverse using a specially-designed tiny anvil and stamp)"
X Link 2024-01-07T01:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"This created the explosive radiant motif on the outer surface each ridge rising in sharp relief to the point at center. Each starburst is then overlaid at the very center of the earring so that the spokes of the star seem to emanate from behind it"
X Link 2024-01-07T01:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Image one shows the bare branches of the same elm tree as yesterday's against the darkened sky and the bare stand of cottonwoods across the highway lit by the sun"
X Link 2024-01-10T03:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Image two faces north and slightly east along our fenceline and main ditch; you can see the remnant ice but lack of any water at all in it. You can also see the shadows pointing in the same direction and the gilding of grass and weeping willow branches"
X Link 2024-01-10T03:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog it's a work for a world caught between the unseasonal conditions of late spring's thaw and the golden shades of fall: early frost and sunset fire a world still too warm beneath the heat of the sun:"
X Link 2024-01-11T02:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Today's featured masterwork is one of only two remaining in Wings's signature series of shield necklaces "The Four Seasons." This one seems at first place a little UNseasonal but the post explains how remarkably apt it truly is"
X Link 2024-01-11T02:53Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"This one is called "Fall: Early Frost and Sunset Fire": Pendant is sterling silver; Red Creek jasper; and agatized ocean jasper:"
X Link 2024-01-11T02:55Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"This series featured one necklace for each season all outsized with shield-like pendants in shapes that evoked stars flowers the winds and the sacred directions each with [--] large cabochons at the cardinal points and [--] smaller ones at the ordinals around a central stone"
X Link 2024-01-11T02:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"All stones point inward toward the center which consists of an extraordinary square of agatized ocean jasper icy white over forest greens literally the "early frost" of the name"
X Link 2024-01-11T02:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"All cabs are set into scalloped bezels and edged with twisted silver. The pendant hangs from a simple lightly flared bail stamped down its center in paired radiant triangle motifs that together form illuminating Eyes of Spirit"
X Link 2024-01-11T02:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"This week's #TBT featured work is one that dates back at least [--] possibly as long as [--] years ago. It's a ring that was part of one of Wings's very informal series of layered-bezel works largely necklaces and rings"
X Link 2024-01-12T00:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"This one is "layered" only nominally with a single flanged base surrounding the bezel. The ring was substantial band formed of sterling silver half-round wire of a decently heavy gauge. Half-round is flat on the underside the inner band convex on the top the outer surface"
X Link 2024-01-12T00:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Today's featured work is a cuff one created using multiple traditional techniques. It's called "Earth Flowering In the Light": Sterling silver; malachite"
X Link 2024-01-15T01:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
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