Bakelite Jewellery & Other Objects

The first English Bakelite phone!Bakelite was used to make tape measure! Check out Old Tools, they have lots cool items and a good selection of tape measures!We often see many fashion items and we don't know their influences or their significance. Top Shop and most high street shops have a good selection of plastic bracelets that are art Deco inspired and a plastic bracelet is nice but it doesn't seem very special until you start looking at the original ones and their history.Leo Hendrik Baekeland, a Belgian-American chemist working in New York applied for The "Heat and Pressure Patent" on July 14th, 1907. The name Bakelite was originally a brand - trademark name, but it's become a generic term for all phenolic resin products. It's hard to imagine that one patent was used in so many different objects: saxophone mouthpieces, cameras, solid-body electric guitars, rotary-dial telephones, tape measures, early machine guns, appliance casings and jewellery. Many of these pieces have become collectors items and are extremely sought over. Phenolics are presently used in the electronics, power generation and aerospace industries.In London you can find a selection of the popular JMP (Paris) 70s Bakelite jewellery pieces - manufactured for Dior at Palette London.