For example, the London-based jewelry designer Kimmie Chui makes lily-pad brooches (like this one, $135).

Sometimes she would get hooked on the history as well as the beauty of the object, and ask us to make necklaces, bracelets and brooches.

Masroure's felt flowers come in snappy shades of natural brown, bright orange and splashy hot pink, and make groovy brooches, hatpins and everlasting bouquets.

Additional insights into production are provided by the blanks for making brooches at Baldock, while the counterfeiters' Severan coin-moulds at Ancaster and the fourth-century examples at Duston represent a less legal activity.

Guests at this benefit party for the Children's Museum of the Arts can make their own hats, necklaces, brooches and bracelets to wear home from the celebration.

Bress had a small but thriving business making brooches and rings and necklets for the wealthy.

But Völund enticed the king's sons to his forge, killed them, made brooches of their eyeballs and necklaces of their teeth, gave them to their father, his master.

"FAMILY JEWELRY DAY," a workshop to make brooches, necklaces and bracelets out of beads and found objects, tomorrow from 10 a.m. to noon for children and an accompanying adult, at the Children's Museum of the Arts, 182 Lafayette Street, SoHo.

The stones of palm fruits are as hard as ivory, and make buttons, brooches and ornaments.

I made jewellery, brooches and pins, a few rings.