Triple Play Toggles

I was up very late last night, working on casting and finishing some pewter pieces. I had ideas I wanted to test, to create some decorative clasps and closures. That could be used as a closure, or not as a closure, and maybe when used as a clasp doesn't really look like a toggle, but is worked into the design somewhat steathily.


The kind of closure or clasp you leave in the front of the necklace, showing right up as part of the design. This wheat sheaf design, for abundance, has a small fused dichroic gemstone on it, it sparkles like mad in the light.


The outspread wings have a large decorative loop on one side, and small loops at each wingtip. I could see these as closures for a long beaded lariat, to drape the long end through the large opening.

Or a bar toggle closure, to put through the hole for the clasp. Lots of ideas running around, creatively. Even possibly not a closure at all, just having some dangles hung from the loops, or chain for a necklace, to use as a focal charm.


I especially like the lock and key one. The keyhole is a cast I took from my old 1920's home, from one of the doors in the bungalow, the house I had before I moved to Saint Louis. It reminds me of the old doors and beautiful woodwork in that house.

And the key is cast from an english secretary desk key, I got that piece of furniture, with its stained glass design cabinet doors, when I still lived in Texas. It came in a container shipment from England as part of an auction sale, this metal key was taped to the inside of the drawer for the locks on the fold-down writing desk cabinet.

See, a toggle bar could be pushed right through that keyhole, to become a toggle clasp!

What do you think - to toggle, or not to toggle?