Behind the scenes of Harry Potter character Luna Lovegood's jewellery

Behind the Scenes: Making Jewellery for Harry Potter – part I

It’s been such a career highlight to design and make several pieces of jewellery for the Harry Potter films – I therefore don’t mind at all when people refer to me as ‘the Harry Potter jeweller’!

Back in 2006, when I was heavily pregnant with my son, I was commissioned to make a pair of earrings for actress Evanna Lynch, who plays young witch Luna Lovegood, to wear in the 2007 film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I was told that the young actress enjoyed making her own jewellery using the French beading technique and was asked to make her some French-beaded radish earrings. In J. K. Rowling’s The Order of the Phoenix novel she describes the new student at Hogwarts, the ‘odd’ witch Luna Lovegood, as wearing radish earrings.

I had to teach myself French beading but I always love a challenge so I tracked down a book and set to work! Evanna Lynch went on to wear the earrings in the next two films – The Half-Blood Prince and The Deathly Hallows.

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The earrings were tricky to make so it’s really satisfying to see the results on the big screen. You can find out more about the jewellery I made for the Harry Potter films here.

You can also see my original earrings on display at Harry Potter World, at Warner Bros Studio Tours London.