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Creating sustainable bone jewelry since 2010

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Bryan & Casey
🌿Ooak wears for the wild & feral
🌿EST 2010
🌿Find us in pdx
@memoryden_pdx @antiquealley @retropolitan.pdx

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Corpse wax
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Have you ever pulled bones out of maceration and seen this white chalky substance?
This is called adipocere/corpse wax or grave wax.
Adipo= fat
Cere= wax......pretty self explanatory as it really is, fat wax. .
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Why can you commonly find this substance on bones that have been processed through maceration?
Because maceration baths create the most ideal conditions for corpse wax to form... A basic recipe for corpse wax includes ▶warmth ▶moisture▶an anaerobic environment and the presence of putrifactive bacterial enzymes. .
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Though you want an anaerobic ( void of oxygen) enviroment for maceration to work and clean your bones.... You also want to be careful of leaving your maceration buckets sitting for too long without water exchange as it can provoke the formation of corpse wax, which can add an extra step in your bone processing. .
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How do you rid your bones of corpse wax?
I personally like to throw the bones in a degresing bath followed by a good scrub with a bristle brush.
People have various methods for removing adipocere, I tend to stick with the simple route and havent had any issues with it thus far.
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Did you know when the conditions are right, adipocere can even preserve and almost mummify a corpse?! Research soap mummies and saponification to learn more❤ ( it is incredibly interesting).
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#nerdout #bonecleaning #boneprocessing #adipocere #corpsewax #gravewax #bonenerd #vultureculture #godoresearch #animalbones #skulls #bonejewelry #behindthescenes by @wolfteacreations

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6 years ago

Metal charm making
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Did you know our charms are made here?
Designs mocked up in photoshop
printed on transfer paper
Heat transfered to sheet metal
Placed into an etching bath
Rinsed and neutralized
Given a patina
Given a metal sealant
Hand sawed
Filed
Metal punched
And then it's onto adorning and making the final product.
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Each piece a labor of love 🖤
Can't wait to see what new designs get conjured up this year!
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#handmade #oak #metaljewelry #diy #etchedjewelry #behindthescenes #yurtliving #jewelrymaking by @wolfteacreations

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5 years ago

I will have some very special pieces made just for the witches ball this saturday!

Tiare curated an insane line up of performers and vendors, its going to be so much fun.
Come out, dress your best and enjoy a night of ritual performance

@tiare.valouria @valourian.theatre

#portlandevents #witchesball #vvitch by @wolfteacreations

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More hammered fringe for @odditiesandcuriositiesexpo

#bonejewelry #oddities #wirejewelry #brutalist by @wolfteacreations

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21 hours ago

Mark your calendars!!
@peculiar_objects_pdx is coming up soon!

An immersive dark market held over at @blackthornmercantile

Curated by @woodland_shrine and i

Showcasing handmade artists and makers!
Ethical curiosities & bone jewelry, local apothecaries, candles, hand forged wears, elixirs, tinctures, oils and more.
There will also be baked goods and libations.

Sprinkled throughout this space will be installations of entities and figures looming in the shadows, alter spaces and the warm glow of candlelight.

This is a free event.
First 100 people to come get a free little curio bag🖤

#portlandevents #smallbusiness #blairwitch #pdxmarket #witchy taken in Portland, Oregon by @wolfteacreations

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2 days ago

Some simple sigil earrings

Woven with salvaged bones and hammered/hand shaped wire.

Ill have these for the witches ball and @odditiesandcuriositiesexpo

#sigils #bonejewelry #boneearrings #witchy by @wolfteacreations

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3 days ago

Hey! Its been a minute.
Ive had my head down preparing for some really amazing things coming up.
HUGE NEWS COMING SOON.

Between preparing for this big surprise, ive been working of preparations for

The witches ball on the 17th with @tiare.valouria

The @odditiesandcuriositiesexpo in seattle on the 24th/25th

NOV 6TH - HUGE NEWS ( you'll see soon !)

Nov 7th/8th @odditiesandcuriositiesexpo portland

Nov 14 @peculiar_objects_pdx

#bonejewelry #avantgarde #darkstyle by @wolfteacreations

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4 days ago

A little Vincent with a little bone.

These hammered fringe pieces are getting ready for the @odditiesandcuriositiesexpo as well as the witches ball coming up!

Love hammering out these fringe paddles.

#odditiesandcuriosities #bonejewelry #wirejewelry #pdxartist by @wolfteacreations

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12 days ago

🪾Witches Ball of the West: ELDRITCH NUGHT MARKET Brought to you by @tiare.valouria with @autumn_kalimah 🔥

OCTOBER 17TH At the historic @novapdx__
🥀 An @atrium.mystique production.

FEATURING:
@melodiadesigns
@wolfteacreations
@thenaturalwitchshop
@corviidart
@grendelmouse
@creepygirltrap.pdx
@covenless_
@dragon_herbarium
@clawthorncreations
& @theskeletonkeyodditorium

🍵 @enthea_teahouse Gong Fu LOUNGE

🔮 With Tarot & Oracle readings by @ghostofearth & @mrstwitchestarot

💀 And our complimentary haunted Photo Booth experience with @daboothpdx

The Witches Ball of the West features the ever evolving Eldritch Night Market - a dark arts bazaar. Shop for priceless treasure in our floating market in the grand balcony of the Nova PDX and pay a visit to one of our tarot readers to see what Spirit has in store for you. The Eldritch Night Market brings you a curated array of some of the finest crafters and conjurers of the Pacific Northwest.

You will discover adornments, medicines, and materia magicka at the Night Market that you simply cannot find online.

🌙 Get ready to swoon to the moon...

JOIN US FOR AN EVENING OF OTHERWORLDLY ELEGANCE

Tickets are going FAST 🦇
Reserve yours now at witchesballofthewest.com

#witchesballofthewest #novapdx #portlandnightmarket #pdxnightlife taken in NOVA PDX by @wolfteacreations

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14 days ago

Spruced up the @memorydenpdx booth with some new goodies and a little rearranging.

@thecopperbanshee also put in some awesome new goods!

#memoryden #pdxbooth #curiosities #darkaesthetic by @wolfteacreations

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15 days ago

Fresh off the work bench, so fresh you can see my stained fingers.

These babes will be at the witches ball @tiare.valouria on the 17th.
Ive been on a roll with these hammered sigils, many more to come!

Listening to the audio book stoled tongues as well as penpal when I was weaving these together.

Any good audio book horror recommendations?
Looking for something unsettling

#hammeredwire #sigils #jewelry #witch by @wolfteacreations

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16 days ago

Found these little cutie pies dried up and tangled in the seaweed.

Took my chicken strips tin ( classy i know) and filled it with beach treasures.
These lil guys are getting cast in resin and put into curio vials for the @odditiesandcuriositiesexpo coming up!

Excited to show you the final pieces!

#vultureculture #salvagedart by @wolfteacreations

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