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    RACHEL EARDLEY

    Jun 28, 2022 3 minutes
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    ‘I love reusing something that’s just sitting there, collecting dust,’ says jeweller Rachel Eardley. A rather spectacular form of coin circulation, her work involves piecing together motifs cut from coins, then melding them into tiny, wearable metal collages. Elegant, intricate and playful, with just a hint of the Jack Sparrow, her pieces include earrings laced with ships cut from 1940s South African coins, or lilies and thistles carved from sixpences and old fivepences.

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