Globalcoolo (Patrizia Iacino) / Gwen Oulman Brennan

I knew Cracker Jacks came with a prize, but asparagus? New York-based Italian jeweller Patrizia Iacino saw the potential in those rubber bands that hold your produce together, recycling them into eye-catching pieces like this ring from her SAL collection (above).

Visit her site Globalcoolo for more, including milk caps, bottle caps and this ring cast from a contact lens case. (Which I guess makes it more lens-catching than eye-catching.)

Bonus link: for more jewellery featuring found objects, like this ring made from roofing, check out Rhode Island's Gwen Oulman Brennan.

Even more jewellery:

• Gabrielle Fitzgibbon (Seattle) - papery acrylic


• Mopsoi (Japan) - vintage style


• Stepan Terteryan (UK) - contemporary silver