The name
Sera Marea is Italian for the evening tide: the water that goes out and comes back, again and again.
A crochet hook moves like that. In, around, through, and back.
Lace, but metal
A fine wire takes the place of thread. A small hook pulls one loop through the next, and the loops add up to a petal, a leaf, a fan, a ruffle.
Most of what is here is made this way. A few pieces are strung, knotted or set instead, and their pages say so.
What each piece is made of is written on its page: the wire, the plating, the pearls, the posts. Nothing is solid gold, and only the earring posts marked 925 are sterling.
By hand
It is done by hand, stitch by stitch, slowly. So no two pieces come out exactly alike: a petal sits a little higher on one, a leaf turns a little further on another.
That is the hand showing.
Read how it's made, the materials glossary, or how to care for it.
