My name is Jonathan Yoon, and I'm a jeweler based in Penang.
I sell a handmade mostly silver jewellery.
I've got three main ranges, the coral ocean based on my diving experience,
the Eden based on the garden, and of course I have the vintage range based on the pranakan jewellery.
I have to draft the design out first and do it on a working paper,
and after that paste it on the flat sheet like this,
and then saw out the individual parts.
It's very long to cut out like say something like this
because the patterns are very intricate.
So if I want to shape them, I'll shape the individual parts.
This is flower part.
After we file the parts,
let's go.
As you can see, when we are doing soldering, the metal becomes blackened.
That's alright because you can dunk it in the acid.
The metal is polished now.
This is the main body.
So I'm going to put them together again.
So it's made out of multiple parts in the front.
This is a finished product.
It's just a different design, but basically the concept is the same.
The pranakan jewellery is basically a mash-up
between the Malay and Chinese cultures.
My maternal grandmother lived in Nonya.
She would wear the brooches and you know, wear the kebaya.
So we grew up with that.
This is the cutest and the smallest.
Some of them are tall and elegant like this one.
This one has got a lot of personality.
The peach shape that's pointing towards the heart
is the mother's heart because this is the mother brooch.
They are newly designed, newly made.
So they are not replicas.
It's my way of contributing to the society that I came from.
Maksudnya, ini untuk menjelaskan kehidupan.
