In recent months, Julia Limousin has changed her life. After several years developing websites or mobile applications for merchants or liberal professions, she has chosen to start retraining. “It happened after the pandemic, following an economic dismissalcontextualise-t-elle. I have always been sensitive to manual work and at the bottom of myself, I knew that I would end up changing my job. »»
Skills assessment, observation courses … For a year, she moved to Saint-Amand-Montrond, in the Cher, to follow a CAP where she discovers the Ba-Ba of jewelry. She learns to observe the metal, to forge it, cook, saw it, polish it. “Before that, I already tinkered with dilettante costume jewelry in pearls and brass, from tongs stuck to my father, cabinetmaker. But I felt that I needed more elaborate technical background. »»
Since November, she has put this apprenticeship at the service of her brand, YMU – for immutable. Smooth surfaces, simple shapes, almost clinical purity: it handles the entire manufacture of its stripped and not gendered jewelry. Minimalist rings for finger or ear, wide links or phalange rings, sometimes raised with mobile elements, to handle and spin.
“There is a sensory dimension there that was close to my heart, because I had noticed how often we are often in the process of passing our jewelry, by automatism or as an emotional crutch”, explains the thirties, whose work takes shape in her workshop in Orleans, installed in that of her father, Christophe, specialist in restoration of old furniture. “I squat his noose, he gave me a small hammer, we exchange on our problems”, she has fun.
If it plans to extend its offer possibly one day to Vermeil, it today works the recycled money, acquired from a supplier which makes it melting remains of industrial waste. It also offers its customers to send them their old jewelry, which will also be recycled. These are exchanged for a reduction code for a next purchase.
Recycled silver jewelry, from 75 to 290 euros.
