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Yang, Mary Z. & Lee, Jon

Mary’s Designs

Jewelry

Professionally trained in jewelry design, enamel artists and goldsmiths with more than 30 years of experience, we design and handcraft one-of-a-kind enamel cloisonné jewelry pieces. With our unique expertise:

  1. We have developed new techniques and processes for better cloisonné color results.
  2. We roll our own 24k cloisonné wires to the thinnest .002” for our detailed work. There are no other enamellists who have done this before.
  3. We have also developed our own techniques for double-sided cloisonné artwork on both sides of a fine silver sheet. Technically, it’s a big challenge and no one has ever done it before.

We set our cloisonné pieces in 14k or 18k yellow gold (old wax casting and hand fabrication) with precious stones. We own copyrights on our work. In addition, we have received awards each year from top art shows nationwide. We both hold Bachelor degrees in Architecture and Business and Masters in Education and Computer Science.

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Savely, Clay

Tree of Life Potters

Clay

Honoring the vast botanical realms of the Appalachian bio-region, each platter, plate, vase, mug, bowl, or jewelry piece is handcrafted and as unique as the plants that were impressed into it. This technique has been passed down from a university level trained father to son, and is inspired by visionary art, indigenous mysticism and the powerful magic found in the lush forests of the Blue Ridge mountains.

This unique form of ceramics is created from hand-built stoneware clay slabs designed with tedious impressions of local plants set delicately into patterns and mandalas that are highlighted by iron-oxides and various glazes. Using refined hand building techniques, our pottery is created by impressing flowers, ferns, leaves and tree bark delicately into stoneware clay. After the piece is formed and plants are pulled out, it is bisque fired. After a thorough sanding process, an iron-oxide stain is applied and wiped off negative space tediously to leave the stain in the impressions. Occasionally glaze is painted into leaves to mimic natural color. After a final glaze firing, the piece is vivid and functional.

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