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 delicate raspberry leaf has been revered by herbalists of many cultures through the ages for its therapeutic and medicinal uses. The Raspberry earrings feature cast bronze leaves and garnet beads raspberries.

• Cast in bronze
• Hand-made
• 925 silver post
• 1.4 x 0.4"