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.

The bristly raspberry shrub, which grows in the cool northern regions of the United States, is the bearer of fragrant and decorative berries. The Raspberry brooch features cast bronze leaves and twigs and three garnet beads raspberries.

• Cast bronze with a hand patina finish
• Accented with cast glass
• 24k gold finish
• 2" x 2"