Hi! We're Vincent & Nooma

We love to learn a little about the creators behind the work we’re atracted to and thought you might be interested in knowing a little bit about us.

We’re the husband and wife team behind Inviciti, our company, which we started in 2013, selling on Etsy.

Vincent does the casting and finishing of all our pewter pieces. The two of us design all the pieces you find in our store. While we share a similar aesthetic, we also tend to veer off onto our own paths with regards to our style. Sometimes we even pick up on the vibe of each other and create eerily similar work!  We hope it makes for an interesting array of pieces to choose from. In the product descriptions you can find out which one of us made a particular design. If you’ve been following our work for a while, maybe you can even guess correctly who made what. It keeps things fun and also serves as a record to help us remember! There have been times when a piece designed years ago looks like it could’ve been made by either of us and we have a hard time remembering!

I (Nooma) have a background in graphic design, but I started off making jewelry over 20 years ago, beginning with ceramics classes from which I began making ceramic beads to use in my jewelry designs, and then some years later, took a 3-month class on metalsmithing, and made sterling silver jewerly for about 5 years which I sold in my Etsy shop, back when Etsy was a new marketplace.

I was working at a company as a graphic artist full time and Vincent was doing internet marketing for the same company, and the rest is history! Eventually, we both quit our ‘day’ jobs and I kept making jewelry while he taught himself how to cast metal so he could make components for jewelry-makers, and Inviciti was born. I, being eager to use clay again, turned my energy toward making pieces for Inviciti by sculpting prototypes using clay, and Vincent was very inventive in coming up with his own ways to make prototypes from wood and other materials.

Vincent’s background in marketing came in handy for getting our work out there. He also loves engaging with customers on social media and is great with customer service and keeping up with messages. I, having been a graphic designer with experience in product photography, take care of that side of things: doing our photos, website design and cards. I also do the shipping for Inviciti.

We’re so happy you found us and are interested enough to read our About Page! We are very accessible and love talking about all things creative. Contact us anytime!

We design all the pieces you see on this website, unless otherwise stated in a product description. Our raw pewter is made liquid and then poured into molds to become what you see. Once in a while we offer ‘handpainted by us’ brass or copper pieces that were made by someone else.

Original Designs Made from Scratch

A Bit About Our Design Process

We create what’s called a ‘master’ piece, usually from sculptable materials like metal clay or stoneware clay. Vincent likes to experiment using wood or metal materials as his master. Nooma is partial to clay, and fires her master pieces in a kiln. Once we have a good number of new designs or master pieces, Vincent uses a machine called a vulcanizer to create the mold of our latest creations. He then uses a process called spincasting to cast pewter into the mold, and finally, cleans up the pieces by clipping and filing, so they can get ‘blackened’ with an oxidizer and go into a tumbler.