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                                                         SILVER FILIGREE

The silver filigree is the art of developing splendid jewelry and ornaments, with very thin threads. This style of jewelry is composed of a main frame and some secondary, and are filled with very fine threads of silver in an artistic way with diligence and imagination of the craftsman.

The silver filigree is a very old technique; and we know today, we have inherited from the Spaniards, and these in turn learned from Arab cultures.

Today watermark, is being updated, making to value this wonderful art conditioning them to the styles of art

Initially purchase silver rods or bars that are conveyed to an oven to melt, subsequently passed to a machine for rolling where the threads begin to extract, then a diamond is used tungsten, as formerly worked with a row although the latter was a more rustic instrument.

After these processes, the yarns are becoming increasingly thin, a portion of this output is removed to make the frame of one to 80 gauge and thinner wires 28 gauge to 25, which are cut in two for braiding and laminating.

After completing these processes be desired figure or jewel like bracelets, earrings, barges, which are mounted on horseback, chains or other figures as the characteristic where you have a skeleton as a guide for making men.

  Treatment Jewel low watermark technique

  This fine work which have been interwoven silver threads ends with solder.

  In the final process is applied sulfuric acid to bleach them, then spending

  some time to soak brush with bicarbonate recose four to five times until

  it starts to whiten and take the characteristic color of silver.

 After drying begins to hone with a fine pen and dried in sawdust

 for two hours on a flannel or above the sun. For the best finish

 of the jewel in the art of filigree is finally exposed and sold in

 galleries, jewelers and craft fairs.

WORKING DAYS

As experienced craftsmen, say their work time is relative to the amount

 of silver to work if three days are 100 grams are used; but if it is a kilo

 of silver for a gem, you can take between 15 to 30 working days.