Creative Silver Jewelry Designing : Inspiration from Lanna’s Elegant Identity

Abstract

This academic article is a creative work representing its creative silver jewelry design.  In Thailand, Lanna is the historical kingdom located up north, consisting of 8 provinces; Chiang Mai, Lumphun, Mae Hong Son, Lampang, Phrae, Nan, Phayao and Chiang Rai. Although these provinces have their own elegant and value identities, joint identities could also be found. The idea of the article is to reflect the elegancy and identity through silver ornament which is a part of Lanna people’s daily life from the past. The designed pattern of the silver ornament on the article is adapted from the utensil used on a daily life plus art and design to build up the creativity whereas the purpose of building up the creativity is to initialize silver jewelry designing concept with the development plan for commercial growth. The processes of producing creativity are 1) Study Lanna’s Identity 2) Defining the Concept 3) Initialized Drafting 4) Purifying the Design 5) Design Analysis 6) Design Consenting and 7) Actualizing the Product while the equipment for creativity is 1) Designing Equipment and 2) Exemplar Equipment whereas the technique for exemplar creativity are 1) Roughen by Sand 2) Color Distinguishing by Metal Plating and 3) Assembling the Ornament with Removable Joint. To support the article, 3 sets of genuine silver exemplar are produced.