Jewelry Art from recycled plastic bags
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2024
- This is the English version of a video I originally made in Finnish for a seminar.
It shows how I use a flat iron and a soldering iron to make jewelry art from the thin, translucent plastic bags usually found in grocery stores.
Sorry for the bad quality of the video in some places, it was done somewhat on short notice so I only had my crappy phone camera to work with. Hopefully this still manages to give you some idea of what I do.
EDIT: every once in a while there are comments about the dangers of heating plastics. And that is good, because that is important to keep in mind! Thank you for caring about my health :)
Here is a good video with some general background about the dangers of heating different kinds of plastics (I'm using PE and PP, in a well ventilated room and with a mask if needed (working for longer stretches of time or with higher temperatures):
• Precious Plastic - Saf...
The Finnish version of the video can be found here: • Korutaide kierrätetyis...
My webpage: wpandikow.com/
you can find me also on / silvercranejewellery and / wpandikow - บันเทิง
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I'm seriously crying by the end. 🥺 Its so beautiful. Not just your skill and the form, but the message and meaning behind them. I'm your new biggest fan.
Thank you so much :)
I was looking for your tutorial after I saw your fused plastic jewelry. Glad I found it here. Thank you for sharing your awesome work❤️❤️❤️❤️
I had no intention of watching more than a couple seconds of this, and here in am, at the end of the video enthralled and realizing I’m watching Mother Nature reincarnate our waste into beauty. As a diamond grader by trade, I understand the metamorphosis that takes place from something so ugly as coal into something so beautiful as the magnificence of the diamond- I also understand the design aspect part of this video- she is truly...an artist. Thank you.🙏
I love what you do. Your so considerate of helping to save our environment. Your work is so beautiful and Thank you.
This is so beautiful! The art of making art.. the patience that goes into it.. it's aweinspiring! I'm very much inspired thank you for taking the time to share!💙
Thank you so much
Absolutely stunning! For some reason, I felt very emotional and tearful watching this--maybe because the artist has changed my perspective so profoundly of what has become a despised, polluting material by creating these objects of decoration and beauty so elegant and breathtaking. Such originality is very inspiring for me as a furniture designer, poet, photographer and book artist... And the video presented with such clarity of explanation and quality, if you are not already teaching your craft Wiebke, then I am sure you would make a very effective and inspiring teacher.
Thank you so much. I'm touched by your comment and really happy I could give you a different view :)
I'm not teaching it - I'm really bad at getting things like that done ^^' I really should I guess...
Wiebke Pandikow Thank you in turn for your message! No, I would not teach if you feel you don't want to. I've designed and made contemporary furniture most of my career; I did teaching and lecturing at my first university the year after I graduated and, despite enjoying helping new students in their studies, I found it so time-consuming and exhausting that it detracted from my creative work, so I didn't continue. Now I am retired, I can spend all my time indulging in my various passions for making furniture, art photography, handmade books, etc, and with no more client demands and restrictions on how I do things, it's heavenly! If I may say so, I think someone with your ingenuity shouldn't feel that you 'should' do something (teaching) if it doesn't feel right...
It probably would be a good way to actually make some money from what I do, though ;) it's hard to rely on grant money.
But I'm not complaining, I have a part time job and a very supportive partner so I can do what I love most of the time. I am definitely privileged!
Congrats 👏. It is just wonderful the job of yours. I do some at home. People still doesn't understand how important is add value instead of took it of.
How do you not have more followers? This is absolutely beautiful. I love everything about it...
Thanks :D it's probably because I don't really use youtube to post. you can find me on facebook and instagram though ( facebook.com/silvercranejewellery and instagram.com/silver_crane/ )
Wow such stunning work. I can't thank you enough for sharing your beautiful work and helping the environment in such a beautiful and unique way!
Love this so much! 🙏😍👏👏
Thank you very much ☺
Thank you Wiebke for making this video, and especially for making it in English. Your artwork is beautiful and my favorites are the ones with all the small leaves. I imagined them incorporated on a designer wedding gown curving gracefully to enhance the beauty of the bride.
I think you are making a good mark on this world.
Thank you very much. I'd love so see those on a bride or groom!
Thank you for sharing. Their is something about you that puts me in aww. Your work is beautiful. Great Ideas, amazing beauty made from garbage. Thank you Tammi
Tammi Sandoval
congrats. you have truly elevated the plastic bag into real art. Stunning work. thanks for sharing. shows what can be done by a true artist. Bravo
Thank you very much!
My 11 years old dauther wants to make jewels from recycling materials. She expressed (in 11 years old words) quite the same concerns and thoughts than you, its almost eerie... She wants to make the world better, one plastic bottle at the time. She was mesmerized by this video. Its working, you inspire, just keep going!
I'm glad to hear that and hope she will be able to do exactly that! Thank you :)
Truely beautiful. I love your work. So talented
Wow that is just amazing, making something so beautiful out of something so horrible
Beautiful and thank you for our planet!!!!!! For SHARING!!!!
Even when the neckless is broken you can still put the peaces in a glass ball or whatever! Beauty always stays beauty!
Such delicate and intricate work. It inspires me so much to work with plastic. Never knew such beautiful artworks could be done with only plastic
Thank you! I would encourage everyone to work with some really unusual materials sometime, it's amazing what treasures one can find :)
@@ravencoat I tried making some plastic flowers... And I did. They are not even close to looking good or anything... But the thought of upcycling plastic is really great and I'll keep on doing it. Thanks so much for the inspiration
Very deep practice and reflections, Wiebke. Gorgeous. 🙏🏻
Thank you very much!
A truly stunning process with such a ubiquitous damaging product... and your tender jewellery pieces are just glorious, sensitive and mesmerising!! Thank you for sharing this with us!
You have amazing imagination & patience & produce exquisite, absolutely beautiful results.
Thank you very much!
Your pieces are magnificent, and the photography is gorgeous.
Thank you very much!
so beautiful omg! I've been looking for a way to recycle my plastic bags because I want to make sure the carbon footprint I leave behind is beautiful. Thank you for sharing your art and your thoughts. I am truly amazed and also inspired.
Creating something beautiful from one of the ugliest materials, celebrating nature through the use of plastic waste, hand crafting with something thought of as only for machines to work with, putting a new beginning at what's the end of the material's intended life, making a unique piece that carries it's mass produced origin in its identity.
I'm amazed at how contradictory it all is, and how well it works. It's inspiring and moving.
Thank you very much for your analysis and praise!
Bravo! Everything was so beautiful ❤️
Echt super! Vielen Dank das Du so toll alles offen und ohne Zurückhaltung erklärst. Ganz starke Arbeit. Ich wahr sehr gerührt xxx
Danke fürs Lob, ja finde in diesem Fall ist das Einbeziehen der Zuschauer wichtiger als "Geheimnisse" zu bewahren ;)
OMG! Absolutely amazing creativity! I just found you in TH-cam but I wanted see more of your creations and founded you in Facebook. I definitely I'm your fan. Im impressed with your work and I will try to use your technique with the plastic bags because I'm into recycling and reuse material to help to save our planet.
That is great to hear! Thank you and have fun with the material! :D
Love the necklaces. True art
These are truly stunning! Everyone you made has a story they tell but just looking at them I wish I could have one 😂 lol truly incredible!
Thank you so much! ^^
Thank you so much for sharing your method, beautiful work and wisdom. Really well done video. I look forward to seeing more of your art.
This jewellery is beautiful, absolutely amazing. I would love to own a piece of yours.
Such a calming and beautiful video. Your voice and your lovely spirit soothe me. Stunning and elegant- this video.
^.^ thank you!
Wow, so delicate and beautiful! I enjoy creating things from waste as well and like the things you say :) Thanks for sharing!
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Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
What you do is amazing and beautiful
Thank you :)
Wow your creations are so beautiful.
Your work is amazing! It looks so delicate and fragile,and then we find out what it's made from. Just wonderful!
Thank you, great if I was able to surprise :D
Amazing art, beautiful
How stunning. Thanks for sharing.
I love your art, patience, creativity and dedication. I hope you are recognized for creating so much magic. Thanks for sharing !
I think I'm beginning to be ;) (recognized) Thank you!
Beautiful pieces! Very nice thought provoking video. Thank you for sharing!
Absolutely stunning, I love working with experimental materials, and have used plastic bags in other applications, but never thought to use it for such refined and detailed work. Congratulations on such a truly unique accomplishment!
Thank you! And good luck with your own work!
truly amazing work!
I am at awe the flow and pretty ...thank-you
This technique is so interesting & your jewelry is stunning! Thank you so very much for sharing & explaining.
Your pieces look so delicate & the intricate designs are just stunning. Otherworldly. 😵😊
I am at 8:52 min. & I feel so very privileged to be able to watch you create. You say it's like therapy to you, well I feel like it's almost the same for me just to watch & listen to you. Once again, I am truly thankful for to you for sharing. Peace & happiness to you.
:D thank you so much!
BRAVO! !!!! Love how you think. Patience of a SAINT!
XD some good music or series in the background helps ;)
Lisa Medlin th-cam.com/video/Df-VA1PpoJM/w-d-xo.html flower pot made from plastic water bottle. Please subscribe to my channel 🙏🙏
Many Ingenious ideas! Thanks for sharing, clever girl!
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and the results of your experimentation🌸💜Beautiful work!
Thank you so much for your beautiful work and thoughts. You and your work are truly inspiring. (I too love to make jewellery from discarded plastic (amongst other things) - )
Thank you!! Good luck and success with your own work! :)
Amazing. Very inspiring. Thank you!
Beautiful intricate work! I love your creations and thoroughly enjoyed watching and listening to you. Thanks for sharing this on You Tube! Cheers, Ginny :o)
Beautiful. Truly inspirational work and words. Never enjoyed a video more...quite so well done. Peace and blessings.
Thanks so much! I'm inspired by these and I will try this art. So emotional!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge in this beautiful video and inspiration. May you be blessed and grow in knowledge in your quest.
Thank you :)
Wow! Beautiful!
Just lovely!!
Beautiful, and imaginative. And I love that you repurpose waste materials into something so lovely and reminiscent of natural forms; thoughtful. Thank you for sharing!
The feeling of a work growing by itself after studying its process for a long time is familiar -- that's what I consider to be "zen"; I'm not conscious of it (anymore). It's a strange feeling of not being present as a conscious force, but being present as something that is absorbed by the work, and absorbs it in turn. Hard to put into words.
Thank you!
Yeah, that zen feeling is the one that brings out the best work, when ones consciousness is completely emerged in the work
What an absolutely amazing artist you are. Your art work is exceptional! I truly wish you future success n your journey and I keenly look forward to seeing all your future endeavours, with kindest regards karen. 💖
Upeeta! Todella kauniita koruja! Kiitos!
So great idea and your art is gorgeous! And the pictures are more than beautiful 💛
Beautiful! Great work! Thank you for sharing...
Merci vivement pour votre travail et votre partage
J’apprécie beaucoup votre démarche et votre réflexion
So beautiful.. thankyou for sharing.. You're such an inspiration 💛
Wow, stunning delicate absolutely beautiful work. I hate waste & always look at ways to use items that would normally end up in a bin going to landfill or off to some far off land to be reused. Thank you for sharing
Hello Wiebke, my recycled projects from plastic bags are beautiful plastic beads wrapped in either craft wire or lace material, or both I also make paper flowers and incorporate pieces of plastic into my flowers then paint they come out Amazingly Beautiful.
Just beautiful and inspirational x
Incredibly inspirational video... Beautiful! The best video I have seen about creating imaginative wonderful art from horrible plastic bags.
Thank you so much
It’s amazing how you take something so wasteful and damaging to our planet and create something so beautiful and thoughtful from it
AWESOME! BEAUTIFUL! GENIUS!!!!!!!!
Your work is beautiful ❤️ this video has left me so inspired thank you!
Thank you
Stunning work I adore every single piece, it is great to find an Art that not only bring's you joy in it's creation but also to find a calmness in which to escape sometimes. Loved your video and subbed Hugs Dede xxxx
So beautiful x
Fantastic! Thank you for sharing and very compliments
Amazing and rewRding work . thanks for this video. I am always looking at things thrown away thinking somewhere there is someone who can make this into wonderful Art. I will not look at plastic bags the same again.
Your work is a great inspiration to artist and ecowarriors...you have moved me of your thoughts...Thank you so much!
I'm happy if I can make some change, thank you!
Amazing works!
Amazing and beautiful, I'm always amazed at other artists work. This was inspired and unusual. I use old phone books and newspaper grocery ads for this. Thanks a lot for the video. Blessings
Thank you! Your materials sound very interesting as well - have you by any chance seen the work of Janna Syvänoja? She's a Finnish artist who also uses old phone books! Good luck with your own work!!
Wiebke Pandikow I have never heard of her but I will check her out. Thank you. I will need to get photos of my next work before giving it away. Then I will show you some of my artwork and maybe you can give me a few suggestions. Blessings
INCREDIBLE!
Stunning!!!
J Rosario th-cam.com/video/Df-VA1PpoJM/w-d-xo.html flower pot made from plastic water bottle. Please subscribe to my channel 🙏🙏
Beautiful! Congratulations
You're amazing! Thanks to share this
You inspired me. Love from Malaysia 🇲🇾
Fantastisch was du aus Plastiktüten so machts. Die Ketten sehen irre aus vor allen in Verbindung mit Naturmaterial. Ganz dicker Daumen hoch
Vielen Dank! :)
wow I'm in awe.
Beautiful
Beautiful 😍
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just watched this some time go on netflix - it's an important movie to see! and thank you for the first comment :)
This has touched my soul! So beautiful. Truly no words to express what im feeling. Made me tear up ❤️
Thank you so much
Oko Mono th-cam.com/video/Df-VA1PpoJM/w-d-xo.html flower pot made from plastic water bottle. Please subscribe to my channel 🙏🙏
Is Brilliant ide, nice to meet you and how are you? i hope Will many people be like you, who can recycle plastic would be art. Reducing garbage.
I'm a painter and i am using recycle plastic for my painting also. Here in my country so many trash, and i have project about environtmen, educational and Art.
Happy watching your process and keep spirit to make better environtmen.
I learned lot from you.
Big regard from Indonesia.
Thank you and I wish you success with your own project!
@@ravencoat you are welcome and thank you somuch for your support.
Keep spirit and always happy
Incredible
It's just fantastic and so AMAZING how GOD created each and one of us so UNIQUE and so DIFFERENT with GOD GIVEN TALENTS such as this! All I can say is just plain and simple ........... WOW! I am in AWE first time seeing this wonderful creations one person could create out of waste plastic............... Truly AMAZING and FANTASTIC WORK OF ART! If I were you Madam, I would want to have an EXHIBIT for this kind, so that people will be aware of not throwing those reusable plastic bags and think of lots of ways on how to re-use them. Carry On Madam. Hats Off to all your creations(",)(,")
Oh I do have work in exhibitions constantly, next solo coming up in May. Thank you for your praise!
I am in total awe of your workmanship, patience, talent and "world-vision". Thank you for sharing your work with all of us. Your fingers get so close to the end of the soldering iron..I'm wondering how you keep your fingers from blistering?
Thank you so much! Every once in a while I do get small burn wounds, but they're part of the process ^^'
In the end, just over 200 degrees isn't as hot as one would think and the plastic cools quite quickly if it's just a thin layer. I guess every craftsperson learns to be careful with ones tools and materials :)
Exquisite!
😍😍😍😍Beautiful!!!!!!!
Hermosisimo trabajo, mil felicidades.
I have watched your video a number of times since I first found it. The beauty of your work still reaches out to me every time. In your video you say that you don't know how your creations will stand up over time. It has now been over 4 years since this video aired, so if you get this message, can you let us know how they are ? I would think they would be ok because of the very fact that they are made from plastic, but some plastics do break down. I hope I hear from you. Thank you.
Hey Allison, thank you for your kind message. :) The pieces have so far held up really well! What I am worried about is that most plastics turn somewhat brittle over time (and over time here can mean anything from a few years to decades! so it's really hard to know) Since in many of my pieces there are very thin parts it might be that at some point they turn so fragile that you might not be able to use them as jewelry anymore. Nowadays I always sell many of the more delicate ones in custom made wooden boxes though, which you can hang on the wall just like a painting and I think they will be quite safe in those!
also, how is it over four years already! I should maybe make a new video at some point ^^'
Wow!, Beautiful,, Art. You truly are an Amazing Woman and Artists. I to love recycle material. Thank you for sharing. New Subbie. Rosebud 🥀
Excelente trabajo, hermosas obras de arte, eres una gran artista una fuente de inspiración, yo trabajo las bolsas de plástico, tejo con ellas y realizó termofusión,Ceres una gran inspiración, sigue así, saludos desde México.
Thank you Lupita
Wonderfull!!!
Thank you so much, plastic bags are not all 'bad' x
Fantastic and beautifull