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