Personalized craftmanship

ARTÍFICE DEL FUEGO · CIUDAD DE MÉXICO

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I don't make jewelry. I make emotional archaeology.

My name is Claudia Alvarado Feldman. Before I ever touched a torch, I spent years traveling through South America — studying the textiles and iconography of indigenous peoples whose knowledge of the cosmos, the cycles of life, and our place in creation was encoded in every pattern they wove. That journey shaped everything that came after.

In 2007 I trained formally at Chile's Escuela de Artes y Oficios del Fuego — one of the few institutions in Latin America dedicated entirely to the fire arts. From there, a decade of learning from masters across three countries and several studios:  Taller Villa Seca in Chile, Tiny Masters in Sweden, Stockholm. Independent maestros in Mexico City, and the Curious Forge jewelry lab in the Bay Area. Every studio, every teacher, every flame left its mark.

My technical repertoire is wide and deliberate. I cast, forge, pierce, rivet, solder and set stones. I work in sterling silver 925, copper, 14k gold, and proprietary alloys I've developed myself — including a red gold whose warmth traces back to pre-Columbian metallurgy. I use lost-wax casting as readily as hand-forging. I build mechanical constructions with precision hinges and rivets. For me, the technique is never secondary — it is inseparable from the concept. The way a piece is made determines what it carries.

That's the heart of Nomadak: the meeting point between rigorous craft and cultural memory. When I pierce a geometric pattern into silver, I'm drawing from the cosmovision of the Wixárika people. When I forge copper and gold into that red alloy, I'm honoring techniques that existed centuries before modern jewelry schools. I don't replicate the past — I carry it forward, one piece at a time, from my studio in downtown Mexico City.

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No factories. No shortcuts. Just fire, metal, stone, and intention.