Hasemeier’s chandelier earrings, knotted on a teardrop armature, in different colors and embellishments.
A pendant created from a mini-tapestry with two spirals knotted from the inside out to the edges.
Photo by Claire Hasemeier
Thin copper sheets cut, woven and torched with flux on copper were shaped, set in a brass bezel and cold connected with rivets to a similarly torched copper plate to form the pendant for a pale green knotted collar.
Photo by Claire Hasemeier
Hasemeier completed this knotted double spiral artwork, Covid Exploded, in August of 2020, dedicating the piece to the 150,000 lives that had been lost to Covid-19 at that date. She wrote on her Instagram page ‘What a human toll. My heart aches for those who have lost loved ones.’ Photo by Claire Hasemeier
A study in rectangles, knotted in silk and of cotton tatting threads, features two enameled metal pieces attached with prongs. Hasemeier’s brooches may be made with an adapter to use as a pendant for a chain as well. Photo by Claire Hasemeier
Hasemeier’s mini-tapestry is reminiscent of a city scape, accented with thin metal pieces ‘sewn’ into the tapestry with wire is part of a series of landscape pendants she designed. Photo by Claire Hasemeier
When artist Claire Hasemeier combines her talents in metalsmithing and fiber work, her sophisticated jewelry and distinctive art pieces thrill fashionistas and art lovers alike. She creates her modish knotted collars with intricate micro-macramé accented with one-of-a-kind enameled or patinated pendants. Her pendants sometimes feature bezel set or prong set cabochons.
Claire Hasemeier
In addition to her signature collars, Hasemeier creates pendant necklaces, brooches, earrings and artworks using micro-macramé and metals. She uses fine hard-finished tatting thread, tying as many as 500 knots in a small pendant. She stretches the boundaries of traditional knotting to create spirals, curves, contours, color accents and variegated color patterns in the pieces she knots in her studio in Elsberry, in Lincoln County.
Cuff bracelets are also a part of Hasemeir’s work in knotted micro-macrame jewelry.
Photo by Claire Hasemeier
A love of art, a love of horses and a happy Valentine’s Day • Although Hasemeier has long produced art and jewelry in her home studio, art wasn’t her only love. “Horses and art have been my two big areas of interest throughout my life. Growing up, I always had horses. I studied ceramics in college. My husband and I were both art students when we met at Meramec Community College,” she says. “Before we had kids, I was doing ceramics, giving riding lessons and training horses, and then everything changed. We had triplets, three girls, born on Valentine’s Day.”
Hasemeier’s chandelier earrings, knotted on a teardrop armature, in different colors and embellishments. Photo by Claire Hasemeier
Creative chaos and explorations • “I wouldn’t say everything artistic came to a halt, but things obviously changed when I had triplets,” she says. “I found creative outlets that worked for me — making my kids clothes, decorating cakes, and I was always making things for other people. We purchased property in Elsberry because our goal was to have horses. The girls grew up riding, and I rode with them.”
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