Alice Cullen choker

Ever wonder where all that lovely Twilight jewelry comes from? Well, it’s from Portland, Oregon!

Portland designers have been crafting the amazing jewelry worn by the vampires, such as the Cullen family crest and of course the Volturi arms.
The Cullen crest was created, in the words of the film’s director, Catherine Hardwicke, as “a coat of arms that relates to perpetuity and danger and courage.”

“We heard from them in February 2008, and they said, ‘Hey, we’re making a movie here, can you do the work in this amount of time?’” Thurber recalls. “Movie people can be kind of pushy. They want everything yesterday.”

Thurber and his team were happy to take on the challenge of turning drawings provided by the filmmakers into actual jewelry. But they had no idea of the cultural phenomenon they were becoming part of.

“I never heard of ‘Twilight,’” Thurber recalls. At the time the movie was filming in Portland, Meyer’s books were an obsession among teenagers. But they weren’t yet the generations-spanning pop-culture juggernaut they are now.

So for Thurber, Alton and Estes, crafting the Cullen family crest pieces in silver was just another job.

“We weren’t thinking it was going to be as big as this,” Alton says.

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