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22nd - 24th January 2023
RDS, Dublin
Sustainability At Melanie Hand Design Jewellery we began to look for more sustainable materials to inspire our creative process. As a former dressmaker I had many unused pieces of material. By repurposing these off cuts of fabric that had no further use and turning them into new pieces of wearable art. I found the local bicycle repair shop throws away punctured inner Tyre tubing on a weekly basis. I offered to take these Tyre tubes off their hands and set about upcycling them into beautiful earrings and jewellery. What makes this even more important to me is my personal connection with the pneumatic inner Tyre tubes, as John Boyd Dunlop, my great great grandfather, re-invented them. He would have a good chuckle now if he knew what I was now making with the inner tyre tubes.
Sustainability At Melanie Hand Design Jewellery we began to look for more sustainable materials to inspire our creative process. As a former dressmaker I had many unused pieces of material. By repurposing these off cuts of fabric that had no further use and turning them into new pieces of wearable art. I found the local bicycle repair shop throws away punctured inner Tyre tubing on a weekly basis. I offered to take these Tyre tubes off their hands and set about upcycling them into beautiful earrings and jewellery. What makes this even more important to me is my personal connection with the pneumatic inner Tyre tubes, as John Boyd Dunlop, my great great grandfather, re-invented them. He would have a good chuckle now if he knew what I was now making with the inner tyre tubes.
Glenageary
County Dublin
A96 H998
