Subtlety / Porcelain Cyanotype Necklace

Porcelain necklace with botanical cyanotype print.

The main piece of this set was hand-sculpted of porcelain and fired in a kiln at high temperatures. The print was applied using dried locally hand-picked wild herbs from Brittany (France) with the cyanotype technique. This technique is a handmade process allowing the development of an image using a combination of chemical dye and sunlight. The invention of this method is attributed to John Frederick William Hershel, an astronomer, and physicist, who introduced cyanotypes in the 1800s. The term 'cyanotype' is derived from the Greek κυάνεος - kuáneos, “dark blue” + τύπος - túpos, “mark, impression, type”. In contrast to traditional photography using silver salt, cyanotypes implement a slow-reacting formulation containing iron salt resulting in the illustrious Prussian Blue colour upon exposure to near-ultraviolet and blue light.

The necklace rests on a silver-colour chain necklace decorated with a small leaf insert.

Each item from my shop will be sent to you in individually designed handmade packaging with a description tag. It is ready to be gifted to yourself or to someone special (no pricing information is included within the packaging).

I do my best to make photographs as faithful as possible. However, depending on the light, the hues may appear slightly different from the original.

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