Hi! We're Vincent & Nooma
We are the husband and wife team behind Inviciti. It’s just us. We started our company in 2013, selling on Etsy.
Vincent does the casting and finishing of all our pewter pieces. We both design all the pieces you find in our store and we each have our own style and our own moods when we’re creating, but we sometimes pick up on the vibe of each other and can create eerily similar work as well! We hope it makes for an interesting and varied array of pieces to feast your eyes upon. In the product descriptions you can find out which one of us made a particular design. 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) started off making jewelry over 20 years ago. I started with taking ceramics classes and began making ceramic beads which I used to make jewelry, then some years later took some metal clay classes, and a 3-month course on metalsmithing, eventually training one-on-one with a master metalsmith, Bill Roberts, who lived and taught in the beautiful Ocala Forest, in Florida.
I then made silver jewelry for 5 or 6 years which I eventually sold in my first Etsy shop when Etsy was a brand new marketplace, making mostly rings, bangles, and earrings,
I had a stroke of luck when I became a featured seller on Etsy (back when they did that!) which brought my little shop alot of attention. It became a bit overwhelming since I was making everything from raw metal: soldering, making custom ring sizes, and all that good stuff, which eventually (after 3 years) lead to burn-out, causing me to slow down and rethink some things.
Around that time, Vincent and I met and he began teaching 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 and began sculpting prototypes using clay. Vincent was very inventive in coming up with his own ways to make prototypes from wood and other materials.
Vincent has a background in internet marketing which came in handy for getting our work out there. He also loves engaging with customers (many whom we consider friends!) and is most active when it comes to customer service and keeping up with messages. Myself, having a background and degree in graphic design, takes care of that side of things: doing the photos, website design and all the graphics stuff. I also do the packing and 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.
