After a short visit to Felda Tenggaroh 4, I have collected some brooches that has potential to be market. The brooches had a great workmanship, and the prices are really good. It could be done in volume and the finishing will be in gold or silver plated. All the brooches were made by our metal production center in Tenggaroh.
The first sample is the Butterfly Brooches, these butterflies had its own nice presentation. Above Butterfly Brooch is directly designed based from a butterfly, but below is more aesthetic of a butterfly value.
Organic subject matter is a favorite of all, leave design is applied in almost all item in this world, however Leaves Brooch is one of the most sell able brooch.
I had collected five kind of Leaves Brooches that had their own leaves value each.
Below are the Flower Brooches.
Those are two type of large flower brooch.
Below are a Rose Brooch plated with gold. It is quite small and very nice.
Collections of small Flower Brooches.
The Hibiscus Brooch is symbolize as Malaysian Spirit, since hibiscus is the Malaysian National Flower. 
Rather than organic shape, this Violin Tie Clip plated with gold is very eye catching among all. This violin can also be done in brooch. 
However the Malay Old Brooch pattern, are also been re-done. Below are two old Malay kind of brooch design that had copied and re fabricated as to maintain the classic design.
All the brooch are some of nice collections that had been done. However we still can produce custom kind of brooches depend of customer request. Thanks again for visiting fcendvsyu design blog, will update more in the next post!
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The task of developing a premium product is not consider done yet until I manage to complete the set with the packaging. This premium set of tissue box, coaster, and napkin holder comes with a premium wooden packaging with a smooth suede finishing inside.
To fit in these 3 items (coaster, tissue box, and napkin holder) in a box for a set of 12 pieces is a really tricky job although it looks very simple. First thing that I decide is to hands on the task to the right producer with the right job. The wooden box is made by our wooden maker in Felda Kemahang Kelantan which the measurements given by me, and the compartment inside was done by me and covered by our fabric and box production in Felda Trolak Selatan Perak.
All the items are 1 pieces of pewter tissue box, 12 pieces of pewter coaster, and 12 pieces of pewter napkin holder, comes with a wooden carved box with compartment inside that covered with suede finishing. 
After I decide the arrangment for all items, I cut a board to make the actual tempelate.
Below is the picture of the actual tempelate made of 2mm mounting board that had perfectly cut.
Then I put it on a piece of 2cm polysterine as below.
Next the polysterine was cut using the electric cutter following the tempelate.
Until I get the same size of the actual tempelate as below.
I double up the polysterine to 4cm and fit in the items as the picture below.
Then the polysterine was send to the production to be covered with suede.
At the same time I purposely send the same measurement to the other production in Kelantan to make the wooden box to fit in the polysterine.
When both production done, I simply fit in the polysterine into the wooden box.
Now the box is ready with compartments to fit in the coasters and all items.
I purposely arrage 8 pieces of the napkin holder to be standing, and 4 pieces of it stay lying in order to control the size of the whole box, otherwise the box will be too big and it might be very heavy, in this matter of developing products all subject must be count in, the total weight, the size, practicallity, and offcourse the cost.
Finally I fit in the tissue box neatly.
Thats it, this Premium Pewter Tableware set is ready. This premium item was purposely design for gifts at any occasion for the VVIP, latety one set of it was given to the Sultanah of Johore during the visit of 'Kembara Mahkota Johor' in Felda Kledang, Johore Bahru Region.
The Keris is unique in form and function. It is at once a beautiful work of art and a menacing implement of war. A keris is usually equipped with a hilt (hulu), a dongkok (a metal cup at the base of the hilt) and a sheath (sarung). This special keris was given by a great keris collector in Alor Star for me to refurnish it with metals parts and fittings.
Almost all old keris Melayu have hilts in a design known as "ayam teleng". The hilt is held at an angle with the blade, which gives it a horizontal stabbing position. This is ideal for stabbing an opponent in the chest area as the position allows the blade to pass between the ribs and straight to the lungs or heart. This feature also serves certain ritualistic functions. 
Below is the picture of the hilt part which had been covered by metal at the nose part of it.
The blade of this keris was made off old metal. Usually it is forged from at least three types of metal, including iron and nickel to make the blade strong and sharp. Some of the older blades are even springy and do not break easily. However, keris blades are often brittle, and may break if hit with another weapon. The blade is the most important part of a keris.
The Blade parts itself translated a lot meanings, all parts have it own names and functions, it was designed with detail and very deep in value. The blade of the keris represents the shape of a dragon, which is closely connected to water and rivers. Water is the source of life, thus the dragon is a mystical life form that represents power. A keris with no waves represents a resting or meditating dragon, while a wavy keris represents a moving dragon. The 'belalai gajah' and 'lambai gajah' represents and elephant, which is an allegory for power.
The 'Sampir' (crosspiece) of this keris is made from an kemuning wood, and it houses the wide part of the blade. The below picture is the metal fitting that had been done to fit between the 'sampir' and the 'batang' parts.
Below is the 'batang' part which is the main housing for the blade. The 'batang' usually made of sena wood. However this part was nicely covered with metal linings which enhancing this long part of wood.
Below is the 'buntut' (end) part of the keris, it was made of different kind of wood which is called 'Kemuning Hitam'. From my own point of view this part should not being covered by metal carving as it has it's own specialty, so i decided to cover only from the upper part of it. 
Below picture was taken after it was perfectly done. The 'buntut' protects the end of the sheath and also as a butt cap.
The picture below is Mr. Rosli Tahir, he is the silversmiths of this keris parts. He is one of the silversmiths in Kota Bharu Kelantan. Mr. Rosli Tahir or known as Pok Li had been in silversmiths industry since 1950, and one of the earliest members of 'Kelantan Malay Art' which is now undertaken by 'Kraftangan Malaysia'.
Pok Li is a professional in traditional silver carving, his workmanship is very fine and the art of his carving has its own identity and specialty. Below he showed me some of his sketches for me to decide how to decorate the fittings of this keris.
This is before this keris had been enhanced with metals finish and fittings.
From below picture you can see after it was greatly done by Pok Li.
Today the keris is depicted as a symbol, it can be seen on an obverse copper-zinc-tin RM1 coin with a songket pattern in the background. Since the independence of Malaysia, the keris has become something of a symbol of Malay Nationalism. It is still regarded by some as a symbol of Ketuanan Melayu, the doctrine of Malay as the dominant race. However it is up to us the new generations to take our part to maintain this valuable symbol for the next 1000 years. Thanks for visiting my blog and very happy to have such a great follower here!
