About Me & My Metalsmithing. Sara Montgomery

Creating has always been a core part of my life. Over the years, I’ve explored a wide range of jewellery techniques—beading, polymer clay, and repurposed craft materials. I’ve loved blending printed media from my own linoleum and woodblock carvings, and more recently, working with natural fibres in all their beautiful forms: crochet, off-loom weaving, felting, and beyond. There’s always something new to learn, something joyful to explore.

I find deep calm in the meditative rhythm of carving lino or wood, just as I do in fibre arts. The same feeling comes through in metalwork—the steady, repetitive motion of forming metal with hammers, slowly watching something meaningful take shape. It’s a process not unlike weaving, painting, or carving—ritualistic, grounding, and transformative.

For the past decade, I’ve focused on silversmithing and traditional metalworking techniques: hand fabrication and ancient bench skills passed down for thousands of years. Civilizations like the Etruscans, Scythians, Mesopotamians, and the Korean Silla—alongside Iron Age Celts, Vikings, and the Sami—all left behind exquisite jewellery and metalwork. Their tools and methods, surprisingly, mirror much of what we still use today—from enormous forged torcs to detailed enamel inlays.

The more I learn about the history of metal, the more I feel its power to connect us. This magical, reformable, liquid-solid, tradable, treasured material—metal—is a story shared across generations and cultures.

𓅪 Sara