Day trips in Bali

Do you know how to make jewellery?

Combining Jewellery and eco-friendly way of living – the John Hardy lifestyle
I liked this concept – the guy designs his jewellery and seems to treat the factory workers well – they all eat together at lunch and it is mostly organic food, like the brown rice grown on the property! The show room is a fantastic bamboo structure which has water running under it, and everything is made of bamboo. Underneath it there is a safe room where a lot of the jewellery is exposed and that room is made of wax! JH used to make candles, and there was a bit of a surplus!
I saw in the factory that to make a bracelet for example: you sculpt the design and full bracelet from the sketches made by the designers out of a hard wax. Often there are many pieces of jewellery made from one wax piece. Then you put it into a cylinder that you fill up with a white liquid which you then bake it – it solidifies and creates your new mould! Then you pour in your silver or gold and put in the furnace. Break the mould and you find your now silver stand with several pieces of jewellery on, so just clip off the bracelet from the wax stand where other pieces may be, polish it, and add on whatever bits of other material. Hard to explain but fascinating to watch!



We had lunch with the management team (although John Hardy himself just retired) and were able to get the inside stories of how this place runs. JH opened up a “green” school that does IB! But we didn’t have time to visit it.
Of course couldn’t take pictures inside the factory or of the jewellery but they have their own website for the latter. (Couldn’t afford anything in this place despite the 70% off though...)