. Silverwork and jewelery; a text-book for students and workers in metal, by H. Wilson. Fig. 113. Gold Work you learn from your work, and as yourskill in handiwork grows, so will yourpower of design. Design can not beseparated from handiwork. It is theexpression of your personality in termsof the material in which you work. Onehas only to look at any piece of earlygold work, Egyptian, Mykenean, Etrus-can, Indian, orAnglo-Saxon, torealize what richeffects can be pro-duced by repeti-tion. The beau-tiful patternsevolved by Arab,Persian and Hin-doo artists fromthe simplest ele-ments, offer aworld
. Silverwork and jewelery; a text-book for students and workers in metal, by H. Wilson. Fig. 113. Gold Work you learn from your work, and as yourskill in handiwork grows, so will yourpower of design. Design can not beseparated from handiwork. It is theexpression of your personality in termsof the material in which you work. Onehas only to look at any piece of earlygold work, Egyptian, Mykenean, Etrus-can, Indian, orAnglo-Saxon, torealize what richeffects can be pro-duced by repeti-tion. The beau-tiful patternsevolved by Arab,Persian and Hin-doo artists fromthe simplest ele-ments, offer aworld of sugges-tion to the young craftsman, and open upideas for future use. Do not attempt tocopy such work, but study the principlesof contrasted line, texture, and form. Agrasp of the method of building up allwork out of thin sheet, will help you toapply these principles for Fig. 114. 176 CHAPTER XX Gold Necklace with Pendant Fleurs de Lis—TheBrass Mold—Burnishing the Gold over theMatrix—Another Method of Making Fleurs deLis—Engraved Matrices Take a piece of brass large enough and Gold Neck- lace with Pendant thick enough for the pendant, and having ^^ carefully transferred to it the outline ot your pattern, pierce out the shape with the saw, and file it up to the shape of the pendant (fig. 115), omitting of course the rings and loops for suspension. Take a cement stick (fig. 116), which is merely a short taper handle of wood with roughened end. A good-sized 1 r > Fig. lie. lump or engravers ^ cement is warmed in the flame of theblowpipe or spirit lamp and fixed on theroughened end of the stick; the cementwhile warm is pressed into any shape re-quired by rolling it on a cold iron plate 177
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