Klosterfoss Smykkeverksted (Rine Negård)

Klosterfoss Smykkeverksted is a jewellery business in Skien, Norway, established by Rine Negård in November 1994. Its own history describes both workshop production and jewellery from outside suppliers. The name identifies a business and does not establish who manufactured every item sold through the shop.

The workshop carries out repairs and personal commissions in gold and silver. It also states that it repairs traditional Norwegian costume silver. Repairing a brooch does not establish that Klosterfoss originally made it.

For identification, consider receipts, commission records, model names and markings together. Distinguish Rine Negård as an individual from the company, the designer and the executing craftsperson. A repair receipt records work on an object without necessarily identifying its original maker. No particular responsibility mark is attributed here.

Sources: Klosterfoss: egen historie; Klosterfoss: verkstedarbeid og bunadsølv.