JewelOra Stories

Besides Casting and Eletrocforming, another ancient technique for making jewelry is stamping, which in the United States is also caled die-striking. In this process, metal is punched between two carved metal blocks called dies, creating a form and design. The metal becoms very dense and strong as the hydraulic presses squeeze it between the dies at pressure of up to 25 tons per square inch.

stamped jewelry

Electroforming is a technique of forming metal objects by electricaly deposting the metal over a mold. The mold, which may be made of a material such as wax, epoxy resin, or silicone rubber, is later removed, leaving a metal shell.

The process of electroforming orginated in the 1830’s with the birth of electroplating. It became a convenient and extremely accurate way for museums to reproduce antique pieces. Originally, gold electroforming requires a very high karat gold – at least 23.5 K. But in the early 1980’s, a French jewelry manufacturer developed a way of making electroformed pieces out of 14K and 18K gold. Since then, electroformed jewelry has become increasingly popular.
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Low Wax Casting is an ancient way of jewelry making but still popular today. It’s best for a cast piece to be made from an orignal model. Detail is lost whenever a piece is recopied. Also, each time a rubber mold is made, the resulting wax and copy are a little smaller and thinner than the original.
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Casting is an ancient method of jewelry making, but still widely used today. Low wax casting dates back to at least 1500BC, when the Egyptians used it. For awhile this method disappeared, but in recent years it has become the most widely used manufacturing process.Low wax casting involves a series of steps, as follow.
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The author’s survey of jewelers and consumers indicated that the two chain types with the most durability problem were the herringbone and any style of hollow chain. Yet showcases are filled with these chains.

Considering how candid jewelers and chain importers are about the limitations of these chains, one may wonder why they’re so popular. It’s because their lower prices and bigger look have high sales appeal. And some of the stores promoting them are not fully aware of their low durability.
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Jewelry has always been valued in the Middle East as an attractive personal possession, a status symbol and as a means of financial investment. The materials and techniques employed reflect the economic and social divisions of society. The precious metals of gold and silver have normally been restricted to court and wealthy merchant circles, though people of restricted means did and still do save to invest in family Jewelry. Among other metals the use of bronze was widespread. The most sophisticated decorative techniques concentrate on gold and silver: engraving, reposes work, granulation and filigree; Decoration of bronze, brass and other base metals is usually confined to motifs worked into the original mould. Other techniques for embellishing jewelry include the application or inlaying of other metals to the base, the use of colored enamels, either as mosaics or as finely painted designs, and the setting of precious and semi-precious stones into metal mounts, notably diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls, turquoises and carnelians.

middle east necklace

Costume jewelry ( or fashion jewelry) has now been very popular, products style range from rings, necklaces, bracelets, earrings and other jewelry accessories. They are always made by less expensive metals such as tin and copper, made in imitation of precious stones such as rhinestones, red corundum and CZ (Cubic Zirconia), glass or paste are also traditional materials used in jewelry fashion. However, some costume jewelry use gemstones such as sapphire or geniune ruby(of course, mostly are the cheaper versions). Normally, the “stones” used in jewelry and more exaggerated with cuts and flashy feel .
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It has been urgent enough for us to take attention to the harm to environment which occurred during production of chemical products. It is because our children will inherit the toxic burden of our planet; besides, some of the most hazadous chemicals accumulate throughout the food chain, more worse, Greenpeace Groups find that chemicals has been found in some babies who has just born.

Gold or white gold plating is used widely in imitation jewelry manufacture. To reduce the toxicity of nickel on the human body, people use copper as the material while plating instead of nickel-tin alloy, that is nickel-free plating, which is one of the non-toxic way of eletrical plating.
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