English subtitles for clip: File:GRANDMOTHER'S PERANAKAN BROOCH • Jeweler Shows How to Make • George Town • MALAYSIA.webm
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1 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,500 My name is Jonathan Yun and I'm a jeweler based in Penang. 2 00:00:15,500 --> 00:00:19,000 I sell handmade, mostly silver jewelry. 3 00:00:19,500 --> 00:00:25,500 I've got three main ranges, the coral ocean based on my diving experience, 4 00:00:25,750 --> 00:00:33,000 the Eden, based on the garden, and of course I have the vintage range based on the Peranakan jewelry. 5 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:41,500 I have to draft the design out first and do it on a working paper. 6 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:48,000 After that I paste it on the flat sheet like this, and then saw out the individual parts. 7 00:00:48,500 --> 00:00:55,000 It takes very long to cut out something like this because the patterns are very intricate. 8 00:00:59,500 --> 00:01:06,000 So if I want to shape them, I shape the individual parts. This is a flower part. 9 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:12,000 After we file the parts. 10 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:24,000 As you can see, when we are doing soldering, the metal becomes blackened. 11 00:01:24,500 --> 00:01:31,000 That's alright because you can dunk it in the acid. 12 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,000 The metal is polished now. 13 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:43,500 This is the main body. 14 00:01:45,500 --> 00:01:48,000 I'm going to put them together again. 15 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:56,000 So it's made out of multiple parts in the front. 16 00:01:56,500 --> 00:02:02,000 This is the finished product. It's just a different design, but basically the concept is the same. 17 00:02:05,750 --> 00:02:11,000 Peranakan is basically a mash-up between the Malay and Chinese cultures. 18 00:02:12,750 --> 00:02:24,000 My maternal grandmother lived like a nyonya. She would wear the brooches and wear the kebaya. So we grew up with that. 19 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,000 This is the cutest and the smallest. 20 00:02:32,250 --> 00:02:35,500 Some of them are tall and elegant like this one. 21 00:02:37,250 --> 00:02:41,000 This one has got a lot of personality. 22 00:02:42,750 --> 00:02:50,000 The peak shape that is pointing to as a heart is the mother's heart, because this is a mother's brooch. 23 00:02:50,500 --> 00:02:54,000 They are newly designed, newly made. So they are not replicas. 24 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:02,000 It's my way of contributing to the society that I came from. 25 00:03:03,500 --> 00:03:08,000 Making this is to keep the design alive.