NOVICA Red Rose of Autumn, Garnet and gold-accented natural rose petal dangle earrings - 2.2*1

Metal Color Two-Tone
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Gold plating techniques developed by Thailand's Danai permit the beauty of rose petals to exist long after these would normally have withered. He presents a pair of divine dangle earrings featuring rose petals in a captivating shade of red that are gold-flashed and given a coat of resin. Round garnet beads swing and sway at the bottom of the earrings which have brass hooks with 22k gold plating.

Please note that because natural flowers are used, no two pairs of earrings will look exactly the same.

Product Features
  • Natural stone -- color and variegation will vary
  • Product Dimension: Length: 2.2" x 1" W
  • Product Weight: 0.0066000004
  • Material: Garnet, gold-flashed and resin-coated natural rose petals, 22k gold-plated brass hooks
  • Color: Red
  • Country of Origin: Thailand
Story behind the art:My name is Danai Leosawathiphong. I was born March 20, 1949 in northern Thailand. My grandfather was a Chinese immigrant from the Canton province. He emigrated to Thailand at the end of the 19th century when he was in his early twenties. He was a very hard working person trading goods all along the river and during that time he met my partner's grandfather.

I studied business and left for England. Engineering interested me, and I graduated with an engineering degree from Leeds University. I met Ilkay, my wife there. She went to Brunel University where she graduated in polymer science.

In 1976, Ilkay and I came back to Thailand. Originally my family and partner's family planned to get into mining. And in order to analyze the rocks, ores and minerals, we needed to set up a lab. Then my partner's father suggested that we could also use the lab to create something representative of the area, and we came up with the idea of covering natural products such as exotic flowers and plants with gold. Well, the easiest way was to experiment with copper.

So we started electro-plating products. We got a small bathtub, filled it with an electrolytic solution and placed anodes in there. We placed flowers in as cathodes wired to a DC rectifier and went home. Of course, we could not wait to see the results, so we came back at 2 or 3 in the morning. Yes, the flower should be nice by now. We took them out and... Wow! Only the wires were left! We tried and tried until we had our first flower covered with metal, but it really looked like a shrimp. So this experimenting lasted about two years. We had to start working professionally, because our process is not electro-plating, but rather electro-forming. Basically with electro-forming the layer of plating is much thicker and the surface better leveled than with electro-plating.

It was a very demanding and challenging time for Ilkay and me because there were so many details involved in trying to get our products off the ground, working on packaging and advertising, etc. We had to run this activity like a proper business and, with our scientific backgrounds, this was another challenge. It was just as we were launching our product on the market that my partner married.


The handcrafted touch of artisan skill creates variations in color, size and design. If buying two of the same item, slight differences should be expected. Note: Color discrepancies may occur between this product and your computer screen.

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