Barb Alexander Designs

Closures as jewelry! Adorn your beautiful knitted or hand-woven garment with a pin that turns heads. Perfect on a shawl, cowl, scarf, hat, cardigan, ruana…not just a closure, this is a piece of jewelry. These hand-made metal shawl pins are designed by me and made by a silversmith in Bali. Made from a blend of allergy-free metals, they will not tarnish.

Art meets function!

WHERE TO BUY

Visit my Etsy shop Barb Alexander Designs

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WHOLESALE INQUIRIES

I am happy to consider selling wholesale to brick-and-mortar yarn shops, quilt and fabric stores, gift shops and other related businesses. Learn about wholesale opportunities.

SHOW SCHEDULE

100 MILE FLEECE & FIBRE
May 31, 2020
This event has been cancelled due to COVID-19
Bradley Centre, Coombs, BC

FIBRATIONS
August 16, 2020
This event has been cancelled due to COVID-19
Fairfield Community Centre (outdoor show)
1330 Fairfield Rd., Victoria, BC

KNIT CITY
October 4 & 5, 2020
This event has been cancelled due to COVID-19
PNE Forum, Vancouver, BC

ARTIST PROFILE

Being a tour guide to Bali has obvious advantages and a big one is connecting with the artistic Balinese and seeing their time-honored processes with textiles, 2-D art and silver jewelry.

For several years I have collaborated with a silversmith named Nyoman. I provide him with design possibilities, we work together tweaking prototypes and his small staff produces the items I offer my customers.

For me this collaboration is a dream come true since I am not a trained silversmith. The metal used in my product line is called “white bronze” – a non-tarnishing blend of zinc, copper and tin. Some of the earrings in my line are 100% sterling silver and all of my earrings have sterling silver ear wires.

Adornments designed in Victoria, Canada and hand-made in Bali, Indonesia. Fair trade in every sense of the word.

CONTACT

My studio is in Victoria, BC Canada.

info@barbalexanderdesigns.com

Phone 250-658-2612 (Pacific time zone)