Would you like to have some earrings, a ring or a vintage necklace, like those beads that your grandmother showed off? Modern jewelry is a delight, with its groundbreaking shapes and minimalist designs, but there are styles that never go out of style, such as vintage jewelry, those treasures that grandmothers wore, with that lavishly ornamented rococo dot and that care for small details that make a jewel sparkle.

In many families they are passed from mother to daughter. They are the best inheritances: jewels with lineage and ancestry, and with the addition that the experiences of your loved ones and the generations that have preceded you are engraved. If you are one of those lucky ones, you may need to go to a jeweler (or a good jeweler :-) to adjust or update them. It is what in jewelry we call "composures": enlarge or diminish rings, replace lost gems, change clasps, clean or re-polish, give a rhodium bath, replace lost pairs with new ones of the same design ...

Vintage jewelry is like modern jewelry confectionery: through these rococo and ancestral designs, jewelry design can display all the beauty of gemstones set in noble metals.

You can also find old jewelry in vintage markets or on specialized websites that resell second-hand jewelry. In both places you will find treasures with ancestry, many times with heart attack prices and other times with the need to make some arrangement or some composure to be able to wear them again. Another solution is to directly buy a new vintage-style jewel, like the ones you'll find in my Ilusiones collection.

Illusions Collection: vintage jewelry for fans of the old with a touch of modernity

MeriTomasa showing off earrings, rings and necklaces Ilusiones Flow.

MeriTomasa wearing the Flow Necklace and Compound Earrings.

Illusions is my collection of vintage jewelry for fans of the old, but also looking for a little bit of modernity. The designs that our grandmothers wore, but reinterpreted and updated.

The model in the photos is myself because being a freelance jeweler is like being a woman orchestra: I am a jeweler, manager, photographer, fairground, writer of posts like this one and above all a model... And I don't have a grandmother!

It consists of four different designs based on a common motif: the French claw, a type of setting in classic jewelery that I propose you to rediscover in the form of a ring, earring or necklace.

Cordoba technique and Catalan design. It is the particular mix that I like to practice the most at The MeriTomasa's Treasures Factory. 100% guarantee of cultural miscegenation and with pieces made zero kilometer in my workshop in Manresa (Barcelona).

Examples of the claws of the Ilusiones Collection, from top to bottom: Request, Vee, Classical and Flow. The color of the zircons can be customized in all cases.

Ilusiones is a collection of vintage jewelry, like grandma's beads, but with a little bit of modernity. Made of sterling silver, with aged finishes that contrast with the polished exterior finish. You can choose from four different designs and you can also customize the color of the zircon: diamond white, pink, aquamarine blue, sapphire blue, ruby ​​red or emerald green.

About the Illusions Collection

The Illusions Collection consists of a combinatorial of rings, earrings and necklaces executed with four different French claws: Request, Vee, Classical and Flow:

• Request consists of four half spheres and four arms.
• Vee of four inverted triangles and four triangular arms.
• Classical is the one made up of six arms.
• Flow consists of four elongated balls and four arms.

The original collection is made of sterling silver, with aged finishes that contrast with the polished exterior finish. The claws can be small or large, and the necklaces and earrings are offered with a single claw or in its compound version (a small claw and a large claw).

All the pieces (rings, earrings and necklaces, in the different versions of claws: Request, Vee, Classical or Flow) can be personalized with a color of zircon to choose: diamond white, pink, aqua blue, sapphire blue, ruby red or emerald green.

The French claws are a typical jewelery design: several metal arms accommodate while enhancing a precious stone. It is a type of setting that offers endless possibilities where the only limit is the imagination.

Exclusive MeriTomasa design with artisanal manufacture, for sale online on this website, with MeriTomasa packaging included and shipping worldwide

The Ilusiones Collection is a proposal that mixes a vintage style with contemporary designs. An ideal formula for those who can boast that good taste is not at odds with being up to date with the latest trends.

Choose your treasure, buy online and receive it at your home with exclusive packaging and free shipping:

Kilometer zero: designed and modeled in my workshop in Manresa

Illusions is a collection designed and modeled in my workshop in Manresa, based on custom jewelry orders since 2006.

The MeriTomasa's Treasures Factory is specialized in personalized jewelery tailor-made for all tastes and budgets: alliances, tiaras, earrings, pendants, brooches, bracelets, rings, tiaras... My value proposition is to create products where it is you who decides the shape, materials, finishes... That you can be part of the manufacturing process and thus begin to fill the object with something more sensitive than the lavishness that metal provides. It is a more intimate, romantic, exclusive and quality work.

Making a small serialization allows me to offer you this collection at cheaper prices and get it home to you in much shorter time. In any case, you can boast of wearing a jewel kilometer zero of artisan manufacture.

In the video, I show you the penultimate process of creating an Ilusiones ring, just before packaging: the moment of polishing with the polisher. Those dirty fingers are mine... Design and 100% handmade!

¿And you, which colour are your Illusions?