Textured bangle with Garnet

Rubber, Silver, Garnet

Design

This was an experiment with a new rubber material. It is has a grid texture on one side and hard sponge on the other - very comfortable on the skin. The width of rubber looked a bit boring, so I cut across it with silver and a gemstone.

Practicality

The stone is a bullet shape so sticks out and together with the rubber texture, creates more dimension and interest to the piece.
The panel of silver can be shifted to sit where the wearer prefer. Even this form of rubber has that kind of flex that makes it more rectangulr in shape than round, so forces the clasp to lay at the side of the wrist.

Variation

There are many ways to embellish the rubber that could look very interesting. Varying widths could look good. Must play.