Jewelry incorporating visual images

Abstract

A method of producing jewelry based on photographic images, and jewelry produced thereby. A photographic image may be formed on a transparency and coated with polyurethane for example. Two holes may be formed in the transparency. A connector may be attached at one hole and a pendant device attached at the other hole. The jewelry may be provided in corresponding pairs, such as a pair of earrings. The photographic images may be provided in mirror image relation.

1 . A method of producing pendant jewelry, wherein at least one principal artistic device is based on a photographic type image, comprising the steps of:
 providing a photographic image taken at conventional scale on a conventional photographic substrate;   providing the same photographic image at reduced scale on a first substrate;   providing a coating on the first substrate;   forming a first hole at the top of the first substrate and a second hole at the bottom of the first substrate;   connecting an attachment device to the first substrate at the first hole; and   connecting a pendant device at the second hole.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the substrate of the photographic image comprises a transparency. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the coating comprises polyurethane. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the attachment device comprises a conventional earring connector. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 4 , wherein the conventional earring connector comprises a hook. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , comprising the further step of coating the substrate of the photographic image with a coating. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1 , comprising the further step of cropping the photographic image to eliminate borders which are not part of the image. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 1 , comprising the further step of
 providing a second photographic image at reduced scale on a second substrate;   forming a first hole at the top of the second substrate and a second hole at the bottom of the second substrate;   connecting an attachment device to the second substrate at the first hole; and   connecting a second pendant device at the second hole, wherein   the photographic images of the first substrate and the second substrate are taken from the same original image.   
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 8 , wherein the photographic images of the first substrate are mirror images of one another. 
     
     
         10 . An article of jewelry fabricated by the method of  claim 1 . 
     
     
         11 . A pair of generally similar articles of jewelry fabricated by the method of  claim 8 . 
     
     
         12 . The pair of generally similar articles of jewelry of  claim 11 , wherein each one of the generally similar articles of jewelry comprises a earring having a conventional earring connector and a pendant device which is essentially a duplicate of the other pendant device, and wherein the first photographic image and the second photographic image are mirror images of one another.