The Phoenix tree

The materials for this brooch were retrieved from the cutting floors of the tailor’s workshop and the silver sellers of the bazaars of Bombay.

I attended a family wedding and went along with the bride to have her clothes tailored and to order new silverware in exchange for old broken silverware. I found these and more amazing scraps that have resulted in a few tree brooches, hence the title - The Phoenix tree, as this scrap had a bird, albeit a parrot in it, and all the materials rose from the wastage.

Currently in the collection of Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery.