After a great train trip into the country we arrived at Pforzheim to see the only museum in the world dedicated to jewellery. It covered a great range of work from 2400BC to the present day as well as tools and techniques, jewellery from non-western cultures and the history of jewellery making in Pforzheim.
To see such a great breath of styles and making was a real treat for me as pictures in books are good but never quite capture everything no matter how close up you get.
Highlights for me were seeing the pre-medieval and medieval jewellery sections, the monumental papal and Jewish wedding rings, memento mori rings especially the snake ring made out of human hair and other hair jewellery, and the mosaic jewellery.
I really like rings as you just probably gathered from that last line but I have a feeling that my work for this project will not be based around a ring form but from something I had seen at the Treasury.
After getting a photo in front of the most amazing tool collection ever seen, we went off and actually bought a few from Carl Fischer and another store in town.
Clare
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