Creating Harish Jewelry
by Marja Kettner  

Over the past two months, Sabine Wedemeyer-Schwiersch has been designing beautiful harish jewelry like brooches, chains and necklaces. Normally she works on Elvish stuff, traveling through Germany and visiting a lot of Lord of the Rings conventions with her garments and collection of wonderful Elvish clothes.

Sabine, 54, met Storm in June and was fascinated to work with the Live-Role-Play Project in December. "After I met the couple from Stafford, I got myself the books as soon as possible and start to design, especially the beautiful Tigron peacock crown together with Sven, who will be playing the role in the LARP," she says. "It will be made of golden steel with gems and real feathers."

Sabine is a well known author of fantasy-novels in Germany and won several prizes for her short story collections. Born and raised in Hamburg, she now lives with her three adult children and one old cat in the heart of Dortmund in a quiet and large old house, with a wild natural garden and a great collection of her fantasy picture exhibition. Her favorite musician is Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull, who was inspiration for one of her great paintings.

All pictures (which I took) are set in her atelier in Dortmund where Sabine and Sven Weber are both working on the current jewelry collection.

Sabine & Sven working on the crown

Sabine studies the crown design

Sabine and Sven putting the crown together

Design drawings for Wraeththu costumes

About the Author:
Marja Kettner is a professional photographer and avid fan of live action role playing (LARP). Her photography has been featued several times in Inception and in 2004 she is heading up a team of Wraeththu to join in a large LARP in Germany. For more information on the LARP as well as some of her photography, visit the Seven Sins web site. Marja can be reached at marjakettner@hotmail.com.