DISCOVER

Folk Affinity is a creative practice built slowly over the years through a collection of materials and discoveries. Each piece is created and finished in my home studio in Singapore.

NO AI is involved in the making. Only imagination, tools and two hands - just the way people have been making things since the beginning of time.


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THE WORLD BEHIND THE PIECES

This is a little window into the world of Folk Affinity, where you can explore the materials, places and processes behind each piece~

METALS

Folk Affinity currently works with 925 sterling silver and 9kt, 14kt and 18kt gold available by request. Soon, gold will join the wider collection.

FROM WAX TO FORM

Each piece begins as wax.

Before silver or gold, there is simply wax, or jeweller's wax to be specific. I carve and shape it by hand, slowly creating the form of the piece. Sometimes, it takes a different path as the wax reveals new angles.

The finished wax is then sent away to a casting facility, where it is transformed into metal. This is the only part of the process that happens outside my studio. 

When it returns, it is raw and unfinished, perhaps a little rough around the edges, holding traces of everything it went through. 

I then solder, file and polish the metal slowly to bring out the final form. 

GEMSTONES

I travel frequently for work to places like Hong Kong, Bangkok, Jaipur and Taiwan, opening up opportunities for me to meet suppliers directly and pick up stones along the way.

Where possible, Folk Affinity sources directly to avoid unnecessary middleman markups. I believe that every stone is beautiful - inclusions, colour variations, carvings - what is natural is good and has character, and Folk Affinity celebrates that.

I work with a variety of precious and semi-precious stones.

SOURCING & MAKING

Building Folk Affinity has been as much about collecting knowledge as collecting materials.

This includes taking metalsmithing courses at my local jewellery school, learning to work with wax, soldering, filing, polishing and setting stones.

The process is still evolving, with new materials, techniques and ideas finding their way into the studio's space with time~