Description
6.25" Alex Horst High Grade Spiderweb turquoise heavy stamped sterling bracelet.
Alex Horst has been in the jewelry trade since he was a boy working alongside his father. Through the years he has mastered a variety of jewelry crafts from
gem carving and stamp making to the traditional Japanese practice of
Mokume-gane, or ‘wood grain metal.’
However, the making of work is only a function for Alex — a stone on a path
toward completion — while the enjoyment that his clients get from his work is
something far more rewarding, unexpected and shareable.
Since Alex’s story in the craft of jewelry making has spanned almost his entire
life, it has given him many stories to share; in his own words, “I’d say 90% of
people who buy my work are buying my story as much as the piece: the type of
turquoise, where you got it — just a little backstory — people want that. It’s
how they connect to a piece.”
Alex primarily makes southwestern jewelry now, it’s his staple and a kind of
work that his unique stamps are perfect for, “I hope that my Peyote Bird work
tells stories, through my stamp work — which is like a fingerprint — somewhere,
sometime when I’m gone, someone will look at one of my pieces and say, oh yeah —
that’s one of Alex’s stamps…”
All of Alex’s works are made with the hopes of creating jewelry that, as Alex
says, is “wearable, comfortable, and at peace… a piece of jewelry that’s got
silver and turquoise and you can wear it with a t-shirt and go to the grocery
store and it looks good.” This is the mindset one might expect a teacher to have
— a sense of daily importance and immediacy — as Alex also leads the Jewelry
program at his local community college; which allows him to foster the same love
of gems, materials, and jewelry crafting that he discovered as a boy in his
parents’ shop.
Alex Horst's works, rugged and non-pretentious, hold a timeless sensibility and
ageless value all their own. Owning a piece of Alex Horst jewelry is an
investment in a long and enduring story, one that will last, like one of his
stamps, far into the future and long after his stamps have laid still.
All precious metals are tested and guaranteed, any Native American jewelry
referred to as Silver or Sterling is guaranteed to be a minimum of 90% (coin)
silver and possibly higher content. Anything marked is guaranteed to be what
it's marked, most bracelets are photographed on a 6" wrist (non hairy), rings
photographed on the appropriate sized finger when possible. With bracelets if
the measurement is not given in the description then inside circumference is
shown where the metal meets the number on the the cloth tape measure.
