This unique jewelry is made by creating molds directly from botanical elements, similar to lost wax casting. While traditional lost-wax casting begins with a hand-carved wax model, Michael Michaud uses an actual leaf, branch, or flower instead of the wax model. A mold is created around the botanical element and as it is heated the plant matter burns away and leaves behind a beautifully detailed mold of itself.

Black-Eyed Susans are one of the most popular wildflowers and tend to blanket open fields with their charming, golden-yellow beauty and rich, standout centers. The Black-Eyed Susan brooch is cast in bronze with a 24k gold finish and accented with gold leaf and cast glass.

• Bronze casted
• 24K gold finish
• Gold leaf
• Casted glass
• Handmade
• 1"L x 1"W