athousandfacets:LINNIE MCLARTYABOUT:Award-winning designer and artist-jeweller Linnie Mclarty came t
athousandfacets:LINNIE MCLARTYABOUT:Award-winning designer and artist-jeweller Linnie Mclarty came to jewellery design with a fine art background, which greatly informs her practice. She works for the most part in precious metals, but is happy to use other materials if she feels they are more sympathetic to the design, or preferable to her client. Linnie tries to work ethically and responsibly. She is one of the first licensees of certified fair-trade, ecological gold, from which 15% of the bullion price is guaranteed to go towards ensuring a fair wage for the miners as well as funding the development of schools, healthcare, fresh water and mid-wives in the mining dependant villages. No chemicals are used in the extraction of the ore, and no child-labour is involved. Linnie is happy to work to commission, using 100% recycled silver and gold that is officially certified as fairtrade, and by using fairtrade, fairmined gold she tries to ensure that the story behind her jewellery is equally as lovely as the jewellery itself. -- source link
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