Raw brass findings

Why choose raw brass components for your creations?

Raw brass is a material particularly appreciated by jewelry designers for its versatility and customization potential. Unlike already plated or colored components, it provides an ideal base for creating entirely unique designs.

This collection brings together various raw brass components: rings, connectors, stampings, pendants, settings, and decorative findings ready to be used as is or customized according to your creative desires.

Raw brass can be left natural for an authentic and artisanal look, but it can also be worked using numerous techniques such as enameling, painting, patination, gilding, hammering, or resin inclusions.

Highly valued in bohemian, artisanal, and contemporary styles, it allows for the creation of original jewelry while maintaining great creative freedom. It also serves as an excellent medium for designers wishing to develop their own collections or offer personalized pieces.

Raw brass findings pair easily with natural stones, mother-of-pearl, glass beads, porcelain, polymer elements, or acrylic creations made in your workshop.

To complete your creations, discover our natural stone beads, our polymer clays, our supplies made in Franceas well as our DIY jewelry tools.

FAQs

Why use raw brass in DIY jewelry?

Raw brass is prized for customization. It can be polished, patinated, or left to age naturally. It can be used as is for a handcrafted style or personalized using various techniques such as painting, enamelling, resin, engraving, or patination.

What's the difference between raw brass and gilded metal?

A gold primer already has a factory-applied finish. Raw brass does not have a colored topcoat. It can evolve over time. Raw brass maintains its natural color and can be worked, colored, or treated according to the designer's needs, offering more customization possibilities.

What materials pair well with raw brass?

Raw brass findings pair perfectly with natural stones such as chrysocolla, sunstone, moss agate, landscape jasper or rhodonite. They also go very well with mother-of-pearl, porcelain, polymer clay creations, leather and resin elements.