How To Be Ethical And Creative In Jewellery Design

How To Be Ethical And Creative In Jewellery Design

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Obviously we are always keen to be both ethical and creative wherever we can. There are the obvious ways in which we think about this (like using Fairtrade gold and trying to use ethically sourced materials wherever possible). But also there are other things that we do which can be really helpful in their smaller ways too.

These include things like re-using things wherever we can. For example, in my company we end up with a lot of offcuts of the satin ribbon with which we tie our boxes. These little offcuts can be just a couple of inches long or sometimes longer. We give these to local nurseries so that they can use them for arts and crafts projects. Also we make sure that we re-use our old polygrip bags a couple of times before they are recycled too.

I recently came across a local charity which I think is really brilliant in Welwyn Garden City in England. Local businesses should be encouraged to give anything spare to wot-ever-scrapstore http://wot-ever-scrapstore.wholelifewholeworld.com/ which is a fantastic charity promoting arts and crafts. This can be used toilet rolls, plastic bottles, washers, bits of tubing, offcuts of printing paper, stickers, out-of-date stationary - all sorts of things. Anything and everything.

What this charity do is gather all this sort of stuff donated that would otherwise be thrown away and offer it to their members. Members pay a very small fee (something like 20 pounds per year I think or thereabouts) and then they can go and help themselves (free of charge) to anything at all to be creative with. What a brilliant idea to encourage recycling/reuse as well as creativity all at once.

Not only businesses donate you or I can save old toilet rolls, old butter cartons and things like that to donate to them to their base in Welwyn Garden City. Many of the members are school and colleges who find these things really useful for classroom projects but also ordinary individuals can join up very cheaply to gather things for their own projects with the kids at home.

It is amazing what kids can use to be creative with anything from old bottles and tubs to rolls of fabrics and offcuts of paper can be used. I even saw some old army sleeping bags and bits of old wrapping paper all going to a very good new use. Having been round there, my eyes are opened to the sorts of things that people may find useful for projects like this that could be waste for us and I plan to donate all sorts of things like offcuts of our steel wire and broken beads and things which can go on to a new life!

About the Author:
Harriet Kelsall is a leading English jewellery designer who is at the forefront of the ethical drive in the jewellery industry. Her company is one of twenty jewellers licenced to use fully certified Fairtrade Gold.



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