PLAY THE MARKET

Meet four Brooklyn jewelry designers taking the borough by storm!

The Brooklyn Flea, Fort Greene’s new Sunday flea market, is brimming with baubles. In the, er, market for some summer gems, we charged up our MetroCard and hopped on the Q to discover a crop of up-and-coming jewelry designers that are destined to make it beyond the borough.

1. MOLLIE DASH
From chunky bracelets to skinny chains to one cheeky pendant that reads SCOTCH, Mollie Dash’s eclectic, eco-friendly jewelry has good sense and a sense of humor, too. molliedash.com

2. ERICA WEINER
Strung together from scavenged, predominantly vintage scraps, Weiner utilizes alternative materials such as tintypes and snake vertebrae to hand craft truly one-of-a-kind works. ericaweiner.com

3. ELMA BLINT
Elma Blint has single-handedly resurrected the wishbone necklace, and the rest of her understated jewelry line is just as whimsical. elmablint.com

4. SPECIMEN
Fashion meets science in Carrie Yee’s anthropology-inspired collection of feather, coral, bone, and metallic gold pendants and earrings. specimenjewelry.com
ANNE-GEORGIA GREENBERG



This story was published on June 3, 2008.