A lapis lazuli necklace by Ingeborg Bratman, composed of vari shaped lapis lazuli beads, 51cm long; together with a blue agate and amethyst necklace by Ingeborg Bratman, composed of blue agate slices with tumbled amethyst beads in between, 54.5cm long; A selection of bead necklaces by Ingeborg Bratman, including: a lapis lazuli bead necklace, composed of polished vari shaped lapis lazuli, 88cm long; together with five further bead necklaces; A selection of bead necklaces and earrings by Ingeborg Bratman, including: a rhodonite bead necklace, composed of polished rhodonite beads, 40.5cm long; nine further hardstone and gem set necklaces; and four pairs of earrings The Stock In Trade of Ingeborg Ruth Bratman (1935 - 2015 ) Ingeborg Ruth Bratman was born in Vienna in 1935, but grew up in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, and was educated in Switzerland and at the Sorbonne. In 1954 her father sent her to Leicester to study textiles with the view to entering into the family textile mill in Huddersfield. In 1965 Inge enrolled at Hornsey College of Art to study jewellery, where she studied under the tutelage of Gerda Flöckinger, one of the most celebrated jewellery artists of the Post-War period. Inge continued to study jewellery at Sir John Cass College until 1971, when she began to exhibit her jewels both nationally and internationally alongside the leaders of British Jewellery Design such as John Donald and Wendy Ramshaw. In the mid 1970's Inge pushed the boundaries of jewellery design with her experiments in making jewellery from tantalum.​ There are pieces of Ingeborg Bratman jewellery in the permanent collections of both the V and Science Museum in London. In an interview in 2010 just before an exhibition in Edinburgh, Inge summed up the ethos behind her jewellery designs: "I've always gone for natural forms. I love plants. I find them fascinating. I like things with movement. I like jewellery to be something you'd enjoy wearing."​