This is how the idea of creating atypical jewelry from something as natural as possible was born. Looking at all these stones, I thought, “Why not make something elegant out of them, emphasizing their natural beauty?” We hadn’t seen anything like that at the time, so it seem like an interesting idea.
Why not take an ordinary stone
as nature made it polish it and add a little luxury? Marina Dorofeeva, co-founder of the Som brand The couple return to St. Petersburg with stones and driftwood branches wash up on the shore which took up half of the suitcase.
Since neither Marina nor
Daniil had work with stones, metal or wood before, and had no jewelry experience at all, they had to learn from scratch. Video tutorials on YouTube, was us. The first major purchase was a Dremel a straight grinding machine similar to an engraver linkedin data with special attachments and drills. The set cost 20 thousand rubles.
“We drill pebbles and look at what came out of it
We were able to saw some of them easily, but some took several days. So we came to the understanding that we also ne to study the materials themselves, understand the hardness of different rocks, how they can react to in the modern world of professions physical impact. For example, if you drill a pebble close to its ge, it will crack. We also began to study the chemical reactions of metal, to understand what oxidation can lead to what shade.
Marina explains The process stones were turn
Into earrings, pendants, bracelets and, of course, rings. At first, copper was us as a frame for the latter, which was bought on Avito, in construction stores, and also found at a flea market near the Udelnaya metro station. In general, this flea market became a source of unusual materials for Marina and Daniil. For example, there was an old sheet of brass, “chew”, with a patina, intend for samovars. It was bought for 1,500 rubles per meter-long tg data sheet, from which sea animals were mint, whales and narwhals were cut out, making pendants from this.