Wild Grape Tendril Shawl Pin
BOXING WEEK SALE
Merry Christmas to you and your family! We're excited to announce our Boxing Week Sale will run from Thursday, December 26th at 8am EST until Tuesday, December 31st at 8pm EST and we will be offering 15% off all purchases - regular priced and sale items. The discount will apply to purchases made online and in the store.
Make sure you check out the Boxing Week page - there will be an addition discount on select items!
Our holiday hours for in store shopping will be:
- Friday December 27th 11am-4pm
- Saturday December 28th 11am-4pm
- Monday December 30th 11am-4pm
- Tuesday December 31st 11am-2pm
Made Fair Trade in Indonesia
Cast and hand-finished in White Brass
Shawl Pin includes the ring the stick
Ring 2.5" tall x 1.25" wide
The tendrils of grapes or peas are nature's spirals. The natural grape tendrils from which these pieces were cast were collected near my studio from some wild grapes growing along the Patuxent River which runs into the Chesapeake Bay. The grapes these vines produce aren't any you'd want to eat - birds like them. In the fall they form loose clusters of tiny pea-like fruit and the grapes turn color from green to turquoise to indigo to mauve. When my son was four, we went walking in the fall and found a wild grapevine covered in these multi-colored fruits the size of pearls and we arranged them in an ombre fade in the cracks of a rock - a little tribute to the art of Andy Goldsworthy (if you've never seen his work, google it - it's amazing and will inspire you). Whenever I see wild grapes in the fall that look like that I think of my boy at that age lining up those grapes in color order in the woods.
