{"id":65388,"date":"2014-01-23T00:13:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T20:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=65388"},"modified":"2014-01-23T00:13:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T20:13:06","slug":"fingers-must-just-get-in-the-way-incredible-jewellery-designed-and-crafted-by-woman-who-was-born-without-digits-on-her-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=65388","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fingers must just get in the way&#8217;: Incredible jewellery designed and crafted by woman who was born without digits on her hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Jeweller-Annette-Gabbedey3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-65387\" title=\"\u0531\u0576\u0565\u0569 \u0533\u0561\u0562\u0565\u0564\u056b\" alt=\"Jeweller Annette Gabbedey3\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Jeweller-Annette-Gabbedey3.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Jeweller-Annette-Gabbedey3.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Jeweller-Annette-Gabbedey3-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Jeweller-Annette-Gabbedey3-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A talented jeweller whose creations sell for thousands has told how she manages to create her intricate ornaments despite being born with no fingers.<\/p>\n<p>Annette Gabbedey, 48, creates delicate rings, earrings and bracelets, inset with with diamonds, opals and other precious stones in her workshop in Frome, Somerset.<\/p>\n<p>But the expert goldsmith uses no special tools to help her work and says she cannot imagine how people with fingers manage to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Gabbedey, who says she was always encouraged by her family to &#8216;get out there and sort it out&#8217;, studied jewellery-making at school and college before training amongst the jewellery experts of London&#8217;s Hatton Garden.<\/p>\n<p>She moved to Somerset 24 years ago, and now has a reputation as one of Britain&#8217;s finest craftsmen and opal specialists.<\/p>\n<p>The most expensive piece she has ever made was a \u00a325,000, 18 carat yellow and white gold boulder opal and diamond necklace, which she made for herself to celebrate 21 years of trading.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A talented jeweller whose creations sell for thousands has told how she manages to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":65387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[6051],"class_list":["post-65388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-annette-gabbedey","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}