# GRANDMOTHER'S PERANAKAN BROOCH • Jeweler Shows How to Make • George Town • MALAYSIA

A jeweler in Malaysa shows how to make silver brooches he crafts to honor of his Peranakan grandmother.

Dan Wojahn was the Sound Editor. Listen to more at: soundcloud.com/dajahn. Special thanks to Penny Chow, Joyce Lim and Wanida Razali. "My name is Jonathan Yun and I'm a jeweler based in Penang. I sell handmade, mostly silver jewelry. 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 Peranakan jewelry. I have to draft the design out first and do it on a working paper. After that I paste it on the flat sheet like this and then saw out the individual parts. It takes very long, say, to cut out something like this because the patterns are very intricate. So if I want to shape them, I shape the individual parts. This is a flower part. After we file the parts. 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 its made out of multiple parts in the front. This is the finished product. Its just a different design but basically the concept is the same. Peranakan is basically a mash-up between the Malay and Chinese cultures. My maternal grandmother lived like a nyonya. She would wear the brooches and wear the kebaya. So we grew up with that. This is the cutest and the smallest. Some of them are tall and elegant…

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2015
- Runtime: 3 min
- By: Oxlaey
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GRANDMOTHER%27S_PERANAKAN_BROOCH_%E2%80%A2_Jeweler_Shows_How_to_Make_%E2%80%A2_George_Town_%E2%80%A2_MALAYSIA.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Oxlaey
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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