Fordite, the jewellry made from paint

     Fordite are brightly coloured jewels that usually come in breath takingly beautiful swirls. The thing you should know about Fordite is that they are not gem stones but rather paint dried up and built up layer upon layer by car painting factories.

       That was before painting of cars became an automatic process. During the pre- robotic car painting era  where cars were spray painted by hand, over  hundreds of layers of paint would build up in thousands of of colour until it hardened with heat.

 

          People who had an eye for art picked up the dried pieces of paint and took them home.