About this Product
Heavy Metal Choker, is a choker that isn't heavy. Asymmetrical, light weight, with a copper heart pendant and handmade leaves on supple leather that circles the neck. The leather is decorated with copper and gun metal for a mixed metal effect. The large copper puffed heart pendant was made from copper sheet copper. The copper leaves are formed and hammered copper wire.
The Heavy Metal Choker is a metaphor for the heavy journeys we face. The puffed heart represents the seat of all personal growth.The leaves are proof of the growth that develops because of the journeys, the trials of life. The green of the bead represents that new growth. The gun metal leaves represent that which is over, done, completed, not necessarily badly. Just finished. And then, we begin again.
That's how life is, right?
TRECE Designs
Meet the Maker
Hey, call me Trece.
I started sewing about 100 years ago, at age 12 on a knee treadle machine my parents paid $35 for. They upgraded my sewing experience to a Kenmore in 1974. And that's how it began. I still use that Kenmore. It chugs through layers of the toughest denim without a broken needle or thread.
I grew up in BC - before computers, before cell phones. Way back in the days of reading books, playing dress up, house, or school, and dancing in the street to Martha and the Vandellas, Dancing in the Street, with my babysitter named Pat. Listening to Peter and the Wolf on vinyl in a house constantly filled with music.
Today, I am a retired Cat Herder (aka middle school teacher), with a stash of beautifully colored threads and time to use it. I am inspired by words and color in my wee portion of the world. I create jackets that tell stories, make statements, and declarations. I love what I do and I love to wear it. I hope you will, too.
Shop Policies
CUSTOM JACKETS: Conversation is necessary prior to your ordering a custom pieces.
- Due to the nature of custom orders, your jacket cannot be cancelled, returned or exchanged. It is purchased, sized and created just for you.
- If you use your own jacket, you pay for shipping your jacket to me. I'll ship it to you once finished.
- Children's items can be made-to-order in your child's size, making them custom orders.
- I am not responsible for shipping loss or damage incurred during shipping. Such losses are handled by the USPS.
