Featured Kyratisation... Guess what...

Hi all

I'm still laughing at how I dit it
Will you guess How I repaired this old silver and silver plated repoussé openwork Asian cuff bracelet?
Before:

After:


Answer to come after a little brainstorming

 

Metallic polymer clay? Aluminum foil?

 

is that a little face looking out? I wondered about aluminum foil too.

 

Oooh, you got it Bronwen Bravo! I thought it wasn't obvious

After searching in my bits and bobs "in case of" box, and finding nothing convenient to complete the lack...
Crazy idea came to me...

ALUMINIUM FOIL!!!

 

Eh... Another good shot, Cxgirl
No little face... only crinkled foil "patinated" with permanent markers glued and coated with liquid glue

 

Foiled again!
It's because I've read now enough accounts of how you manage to cosmetically restore things using very inexpensive & readily available materials. Otherwise thoughts probably wouldn't have turned in that direction. Good job, as always.

Back atcha:


My friend Julia, saying hello.

 

obvious in a close up:

and from the back:

 

Not if you had only the photo of this side & did not know there was a repair there. Impressively creative.

 

Don't minimise your sleuthing eye!
I can have some Mac Gyver ideas for my cosmetic repairs, thank you for your appreciation!

 

Forgot to say Julia the gorilla is so cute!

 

Look under her right hand.

 

didn't notice the baby at first too much cuteness here!

 

Her name is M'Jukuu, Swahili for granddaughter. She was 4 or 5 months old when the photo was taken. Julia herself is from the first generation of babies born to captive-born mothers. Zoo husbandry programs were not certain at first that these mothers would have good mothering skills & did not want to risk losing any baby due to inadequate care, so when Julia was a few months old, she moved in with a woman named Louisa, who raised a handful of little gorillas. In the year M'Jukuu was born, Louisa turned 90, hence... Julia is such a great mother, M'Jukuu is her third baby, you want her to be your mother too.

 

Very creative! If someone was wearing that you'd never spot it. Well done.

I missed the baby in the gorilla pic, too. Just went back. Too cute!

 

If people can miss a baby gorilla, they would never spot a bit of aluminum foil hidden among silver on a wrist.

 

very nice work Kyra !

 

Interesting fix, how did you stabilize the aluminum foil?

 

Thanks Bronwen

 

She's very resourceful, is kyratango.