25 Things That Inspire Me to Create Jewelry - #11 Machinery - Heather M Skowood Contemporary Jewelry

# 11 Machinery

I am absolutely fascinated by machines and their parts, especially gears. I can look under the hood of a car or at a motorcycle and stare for hours amazed that someone discovered how to machine all those parts and put them together to do something useful.

Manchester, England is the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. While I lived there en route to my studio everyday I had to pass the Museum of Science and Industry. I often went in just to smell the oil of all those very old machines still being nursed to move day in and day out to demonstrate early machinery to the public. I also often went in to sketch by hand as well as digitally with my camera all the different parts for inspiration. I miss that place.