Ancient History Jewelry Stories · Moon Honey Studios

Influential Women Jewelers Of The Arts And Crafts Movement - Part 4

·40 min

In the fourth and final installment of her series on influential women jewelers of the Arts and Crafts movement, host Melyse walks through four more remarkable but underrepresented figures: Mae Morris (daughter of William Morris, whose work is constantly misattributed to her father), Doreen Nossiter (Birmingham-born jeweler whose bold asymmetric botanical pieces are frequently confused with those of Sybil Dunlop), Sybil Dunlop (pioneer of the 'Carpet of Gems' style using custom-cut symmetrical stone layouts), and Ella Napier (a horn and enamel specialist trained under Frederick James Partridge who worked at the intersection of Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau in the Newlyn School colony). The episode doubles as a practical guide to visually distinguishing Nossiter's work from Dunlop's, and touches on recurring themes of the series: women living unconventional lives, work wrongly credited to male contemporaries, and the progressive social atmosphere that made the Arts and Crafts movement unusually welcoming to women artisans.

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A detail-rich look at women jewelers that is strongest when it follows Doree Nossiter's changing work and named pieces.

Ancient History Jewelry Stories continues to broaden its portrait of women jewelers in the Arts and Crafts movement, and this fourth episode is at its best when it stays close to the facts the host has already assembled.

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