Care and Handling for your Beautiful Handcrafted Jewelry

People often ask us about caring for their jewelry.

Care for your handmade horseshoe nail jewelry as you would any delicate piece. Try not to sleep, swim, shower or sunbathe in your jewelry and, when exercising, use discretion in an effort to minimize exposure to excessive body oils and perspiration.

However, wearing your jewelry often actually enhances the patina and, more importantly ..... read more

Hope this helps you,
Koko

Horseshoe Nails for Armando's Jewelry

One of the questions we get asked a lot is about the material armando's nails are made of?

Are they some kind of art nail made from silver?

Armando uses actual nails purchased from various East Coast farriers and prefers Swedish Mustad to all others, although he does work with Capewell nails from time to time. Sometimes you will come across an artist who has the shape of a horseshoe nail caste into silver but Armando, the true craftsman, uses the real McCoy. And so, the nails themselves are actually made of steel.

Hope this helps,
~~ Koko
PS: If you have questions, you can ask in the 'Comments' section right here or email us here.

Fourth of July '08 and More!

Happy Fourth to the US
It’s the Fourth of July and in anticipation of the celebrations going on across the country with corn on the cob and strawberry shortcake and fireworks displays in all their glory, I am reminded of the brilliant questions that have been bombarding our email box lately…

What is horseshoe nail jewelry?
Fantastic question! One that we should have addressed from the get-go:
I don’t know whether there’s a universal definition but ours would be based upon Armando’s own design and technique of creating innovative, hand-crafted jewelry that incorporates the dense metal of authentic Swedish horseshoe nails with handmade raku-fired ceramic beads, recycled glass, wood and leather. The result is reminiscent of the 70’s, yet contemporary, eco-friendly, eye-catching, wearable art.

Be talking with you soon,
~~~ Koko