Jewelry design requires art, mastery, and a spirit that spins materials, whether silver or gold, to form a piece of art that suits the taste of the wearer. It takes skill and love for this work and making it with passion. This is what Salma Hafez, 32 years old, did, as she became a professional designer of jewelry and accessories, but this time she did not Conventional materials are used, but the main material for designing these works of art was thermal clay in a way that made the designs resemble precious stones.

Salma designs ornaments from thermal clay

Salma, the daughter of the governorate of Alexandria, said in her interview with “The Seventh Day” that she graduated from the College of International Transport and worked as an English language teacher, and that her studies are far from art or jewelry design, but all the skill she attained in these designs was the result of her talent and determination to teach herself. On her own, she continued that, throughout her years, she loved drawing and all arts, especially handicrafts, until she learned about thermal clay.

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Being a mother of two girls, it did not distract her from practicing her hobby and striving to show her best, a unique method that Salma used in shaping clay, not like the usual method, after she had been designing cups and using three-dimensional Disney characters, until the matter turned with her to designing jewelry with the same clay but with Adding a technique and a professional method to make the shape of the dough, after it dries, very similar to precious stones in all its details, and she added: “From the year 2018, the designs of the mugs It has 3 formsD I preferred to work in it for two years, then in the year 2020, at the time of the Corona virus, I felt that I wanted to try something different, so I started working in hairdressing.”

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And she added: “I made simple designs, and I received great admiration from my friends and followers, especially since it was a new idea, and its colors are also cheerful and different from what exists, especially since there are some designs in which the design method made them resemble precious stones.” Only thermal clay dough and some added gold leaf Besides her professionalism in design, she made the shape of the ornaments very distinctive.

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Her family and husband were her biggest supporters, whether by encouraging or preparing the time and space to devote herself to her hobby and talent, which made her insist on making other forms and innovate. She concluded by saying that she hopes that her designs will become widespread around the world and not only inside Egypt.

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