Found Object: Body Adornment

Found Object: Body Adornment
Ms. Gueli
Fashion / Textile Design
Traditional Jewelry
Paduang Woman Wearing Neck Rings
• commonly called the Long Neck tribe or sometimes
the Giraffe women.
• heavy brass rings do not effect their necks rather
they press down on their rib cage and cause the rib
cage to grow downward.
• Rings are snapped around the necks of girls
beginning at the age of six. A few rings may be
added every year, up to a limit of 20.
• The RECORD : 28 brass rings.
• While no one knows exactly why the custom
developed, the most common explanation is that
"an extra-long neck is considered a sign of great
beauty and wealth and that it will attract a better
husband."
• Paduang women are also made to pay a steep price
if they commit adultery.
A women who is unfaithful to her husband is
punished by the removal of her neck rings; since her
neck muscles alone can no longer support her head,
she is forced to spend the rest of her years lying
down.
- Dayak Woman in Traditional Dress
•
Elongated ears and tattooed hand
•
Earlobes of women were pierced and
loaded at a very young age
•
Over years add rings
•
The earlobes can stretch very far
down and the length is considered a
sign of how much status the woman
has within Dayak Kenyah society.
- Masai Child
- Portrait of a Turkanan Warrior
- Portrait of a Turkanan Woman
- Asmat Man
- Young Woman Dressed in Traditional
Indian Clothing
- Gadabas Indian Woman Wearing
Traditional Jewelry
- Berber Woman Wearing Ornate Jewelry
Traditional Indian clothing
• The gold ornaments that
some of the young
women wear on their
heads are an important
symbol of wealth.
Asmat Man
• Indonesia
• They are famous for their
carvings with ironwood and
being cannibals.
• Nose piercing is very
attractive, and can
accentuate the face, because
the nose is the face's most
prominent feature.
- Traditional Masai Beadwork
-Hmong Children Dressed for a Performance - elaborate clothing everyday to do everything, even to bed
- Portrait of Samburu Warrior
- Mongonlian Traditional Dress
- Traditional Masai Beadwork
- Young Woman Wearing Traditional Clothing
- Dancers Wearing Traditional Costume
- Samburu Tribewoman - Kenya
- Hand of Bride at Hindu Wedding
- Man Wearing Feather in Nose Piercing - Brazil
African Tribe book
Holly Ann Mitchell
Newspapers,
Comics,
magazines
• Boris Bally recycles
street signs and bottle caps,
pressing, forming, and
riveting them to create
furniture and bowls.
• He handpicks the raw
materials for their
thickness, condition, color,
and graphics.
Boris Bally
• These industrial-strength
pieces celebrate a raw
American street look
- Leaf Bling Ring
- Suspension Ring
- Eat Wear Wearable Flatware
- Fixator Armform
- D.P.W. Brooch
- Nickel Grabber
Bob Ebendorf
• Works with animal parts.
• He doesn't harm any animals
• He uses whatever he finds on
the ground -- crab claws from
the beach, squirrel paws
carefully collected from roadkill,
wire hangers discarded in
parking lots.
Necklace made of silver,
trilobite fossils, a pull-top
from a lid, coral beads and a
silver spoon, measuring 4.5 by
1.75 inches.
Necklace made of silver, 24 kt.
gold, coral, 18 kt. gold and a red
squirrel paw. Ebendorf
preserved the squirrel paw by
immersing it in salt to draw out
the moisture and mummify it.
Crabclaw necklace, 2006.
Brooch, 2005
wood, tin, copper3" x 2"
Cicada Beach, 2006
Brooch, 2005
seashell, stone, silver, copper
2.5" x 2"
Silvina Romero
•“textile jewelry”
•made by Argentinean clothing designer
Silvina Romero out of discarded textiles,
recycled pieces of fabric and threads.
•Collect scraps from street in Buenos
Aires fabric dealer neighborhood. Worst
time during Argentinean financial crisis.
•"I love that my pieces are built with
another person’s trash, to make jewelry,
usually associated to luxury and ostentation,
with waste"
• Lily Yung is a Toronto
print-maker and jeweler of
non-precious material.
• Born in Hong Kong
• exhibited across Canada
and internationally.
• From her home in the South
of France she makes one-of-akind wrist fabric jewelry.
• Uses everything from
buttons and pins to felt
appliqués and embroidery.
• She’s put together quite a
variety of pieces that delight
both in terms of shape and
color.
LaPomme
Barneys