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Made Italy
Ricchi e Poveri - "Made in Italy"
The Fascinating Story of Jewelry Made With Mokume Gane
If you've ever come over Mokume Gane Rings and other jewelry, it in all probability wasn't a picture quickly forgotten about. Metals like gold, silver, and platinum seem virtually pedestrian and boring alongside the exhilarating motifs produced in a piece of stunning Mokume gane.
To explore the superb work of a genuine Mokume artisan, pay a visit to The Chris Ploof Studio. Chris' jewelry is popular for women and mens wedding rings and numerous other occasions. Chris Ploof also creates jewelry with Damascus steel and meteorites. He's seriously from another universe.
Mokume gane is a variety of mixed-metal laminate, where soft metallic components and alloys mix to produce the original look. When the metals are melted down, they create liquid phase diffusion bonds that never completely melt. The Mokume gane artisan then turns and rolls the metal to create the distinctive look. Because of the numerous ways to combine metals and the different methods each artisan uses, you can be certain that no two Mokume gane jewelry pieces are alike.
Mokume gane has been called kasumi-uchi, translating to "cloud metal" and itame-gane, translating to "wood-grain metal." These translations are fitting, as the endless variations of Mokume gane are as varied as the clouds themselves.
The process was created in 17th century Japan. The metalwork was used for striking sword fittings, but when weapon modernization came to Japan, Mokume gane artists had to find another avenue for their trade. Their resolution was to create decorative pieces as a substitute. Traditionally, gold, copper silver, shakudo, shibuichi, and kuromido were used, while modern Mokume gane techniques employ such metals as titanium, platinum, iron, brass, bronze, sterling and nickel silver and assorted colors of karat gold.
The technique of Mokume gane is quite tricky, and only seasoned artists can confidently ply the trade. Usually the modern Mokume gane artisan will use customized devices to laminate Mokume. After a process of heating and clamping layers of metals, a billet is produced. A billet is simply a block of metal. This billet is then forged, rolled and otherwise manipulated to produce the motifs.
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