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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

THE BEADING GEM'S JOURNAL

Jewelry Made from Unusual Recycled Materials

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 04:53 AM PST

Noemie Doge's Recycled Football Necklace

The quest to recycle as much unwanted material as possible has led to some extremely creative designs from determined and outstanding eco artisans. Here are more of them to inspire.

Football fans many not recognize the work of Swiss jewelry artisan, Noemie Doge. The hexagon pieces actually come from old footballs from around the world.

There must be a ton of them considering how popular soccer is. Not all are the traditional black and white colors either.

Noemie Doge's Recycled Football necklaces

Cambodian artisans make these wonderful handwoven friendship bracelets from recycled plastic bottles. The bracelets are available on Wanderlust for just $5. They must use fiber made from the post-consumer bottles like the process mentioned here.

Cambodian Friendship Bracelets

New Yorker, Jacqueline von Tesmar's JacQ store on Etsy features vintage ruler bangles. The metal fold-out rulers were made by brand manufacturers such as Craftsman, Stanley and Lufkin.

Image by JacQ

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