Purple and green earringsPurple and green earrings

Purple and Green Women’s Suffrage Earrings

£48.00

5.5 × 4 cm
aluminium with sterling silver ear wires.

20 in stock

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Description:

Show your solidarity with the suffragettes! Celebrate women’s suffrage with these handcrafted purple and green, aluminium, drop earrings designed and made by Sally Lees.

The colours were an integral part of the suffragette campaigns with uprple standing for dignity, green for hope and white for purity and the suffragettes often wore combinations of these colours in their jewellery and clothing.

These earrings are made from strong and super light weight aluminium making them comfortable to wear. You will hardly know you are wearing them!

Dimensions 5.5 × 4 cm
Care Instructions:

Keep your purchase in its original box and in a dry place if possible.

Please do not use abrasive materials on any of your purchases.

Only use a silver cloth or a soft cotton cloth for silver surfaces.

Use only soapy water and an old soft bristle toothbrush on aluminium surfaces.

Story:

In 2016 Sally was commissioned by The Houses of Parliament to create a collection of jewellery to accompany and inspired by Mary Branson’s New Dawn light sculpture celebrating 150 years since the first petition for women to vote was taken to Parliament.
Sally was commissioned in 2018 to recreate the collection with added pieces and colourways to celebrate 100 years since the first women were allowed to vote.
The main imagery used in the New Dawn light sculpture is the end of the scroll that the Representation of the people act is written on. Sally re-drew the end of the scroll and then printed and dyed the aluminium by hand for the collection. The subsequent collection was partly digitally printed.

Deliveries

Free Delivery in Mainland UK, UK Highlands and Islands

Cost Time
Mainland UK £0.00 4 day(s)
UK Highlands and Islands £0.00 4 day(s)
Western Europe £5.00 5 day(s)
Rest of Europe £7.00 5 day(s)
USA and Canada £8.00 7 day(s)
Far East / Australia-NZ £8.00 8 day(s)
Worldwide £8.00 8 day(s)
Returns

Artist Return Policy : This item can be returned.

Under the consumer contract regulations, you have the right to cancel your order up to 14 days from the day you receive your goods.
You could notify us of your wish to cancel the order by emailing us, and then you have further 14 days from the date you notify to return the goods.

Read more about our Return and Refund Policy.
Should you choose to return or exchange your order you will need to deliver the item(s) to the UK, where this seller is based.

Sally Lees Contemporary Jewellery

Sally has a passion for making beautiful things. She is a metalworker at heart and uses her traditional jewellery making skills and those of printing and dying aluminium to create stylish original jewellery.
After studying art and design in the North of England Sally was selected to have a studio amongst the wealth of talent at Cockpit Arts in London.
Her ethos is to hand make her products not manufacture them.
Sally is featured on The Crafts Council Directory. and has appeared on the BBC’s Learning Zone.
She currently also teaches jewellery at the Mary Ward Centre in central London and has taught jewellery making at Cockpit Arts, Designercourses, Greenwich Community College and London Metropolitan University.
Her cufflinks are featured in the jewellery making books: ‘Anodized! Brilliant Colours and Bold Designs in Aluminium’ by Clare Stiles and ‘Coloured Aluminium Jewellery: Design and Make’ by Lindsey Mann; and her jewellery is also featured in ‘Colours adn Textures of Jewellery’ by Nina Gilbey and Beckkie Ora Cheeseman.
In 2016 Sally was commissioned by the Houses of Parliament to make a collection of jewellery inspired by and to accompany Mary Branson’s New Dawn light sculpture celebrating women’s suffrage. In 2018 she was re-commissioned to re create the collection with additional items and new colour combinations.

Please note Sally will be away until the 14th of August, so will be fulfilling orders after then.

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