Sterling Silver Monstera Leaf
- Hand-sawed silver" refers to the traditional technique of using a jeweler's saw to cut intricate designs from a flat sheet of sterling silver or other metal. This painstaking process creates handmade, one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry or art, unlike items that are mass-produced through casting - Silver carries the energy of the Moon. It is feminine, cyclical in nature and embodies the energy of both the light + the dark. Silver is a metal that is alway changing + constantly in motion. It is always on a journey from either light to dark OR dark to light. What do I mean by this? Well, if you've ever had a piece of high polish sterling silver jewelry (or silverware) before, and you let it sit in your jewelry box for awhile, you probably noticed that it started to change colors + darken. This process is called oxidizing. When light-colored high polished Silver is exposed to the elements, the oxidation process starts. Over time, the metal begins to darken. There are techniques that ca