Filigree Jewelry

Filigree refers to the process and the nature of the design, the twisted wire to create delicate, lacy, open worked jewelry. Usually made of fine metals like gold, silver and platinum, filigree was for centuries in traditional ornaments such as pins, rings and pendants. To create filigree, artisan bread with a malleable metal into thin filaments, then turn them into complex shapes that look like spun sugar, suggestive paisley scrolls and arabesques.

Anthropologists have pursued the art of filigree jewelry to the various ancient cultures, including Greece, Rome, Armenia, India and China. Antique filigree found in museums, in addition to old pottery and carvings.

During the Edwardian era of the late 19th and early 20th Century filigree reached its climax in popularity. Aesthetic evaluated Edwardian flower rich, elegant designs in clothing, furniture and book illustrations and jewelry, filigree is so attractive for them. In America, this school of art and architecture developed in Art Nouveau. Most antique jewelry from the Art Nouveau style was in this period, including the diamond engagement rings, brooches detailed with rubies and emeralds, with bracelets of silver or gold earrings hang.

Filigree how easily adapted to the abstraction of the Art Deco era of the thirties and forties, when they are in a middle class consumers. Many wedding ring mounts are made of filigree. They showed in geometric patterns and repetitive pattern, with the simplification of modern design.

As the Art Deco era, when the aesthetics of the delicate work on a large scale in the architecture, print and fashion, filigree has also an open design to work on objects such as book covers, lawn furniture or fabric. Models often have delicate vines, leaves, buds, wapper distracting hair or cobwebs in their textures.