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When the brilliance of jewels reflects fundamendal principals,like quality, reliability and honesty great bibelots for precious moments are created.Greek jewels, small or big pieces of art; created from creators with inspiration and loving care.

How metal becomes jewel

16 Dec 2012

To make a metal jewelery, demands a specific process by special artists. If we visit one of 2500 thousands laboratories and observe the main phases of the construction of a jewel we'll notice that the jewel is made by a place of gold that we melt – so we can form it – and how the melt is done. Afterwards due to the artistic part of the jewel construction, there are some phases like the refinement, the polishing in the wheel and finally the "nailing" of the precious stone.

PHASE 1: We take the precious metal-gold – and we melt it by heat and fire in special purex tools that look like a big spoon. When gold becomes a liquid mase we can form it in the shape we like.

PHASE 2: After the metal is cooled and shaped as we wish we put it in a special press-machine and it becomes a metal plate. It's thickness is adjusted by a special regulator in the press cylinders.

PHASE 3: With a special cutter, we cut a piece of metal plate that we'll use to make the jewel (a ring for example). We calculate that the piece of the metal plate is long enough to create a small cylinder.

PHASE 4: We bend the metal plate and we transformed if into a cylinder by calculating its size with the size of the finger that is about to wear it.

PHASE 5: The refinement it's a very important phase of the construction because we erase all the edges of the metal and the final form is finally appeared.

PHASE 6: In the wheel the polishing. A process of smoothing of the jewel that always has to be done with great attention by experienced hands. The jewel is almost ready but without the stone.

PHASE 7: The nailing of the precious stone is the most delicate phase of the construction and the need of experienced artist with special talent is certain. After the nailing the jewel is finally finished.

CHRIS GOURGIOTIS

Greek Jewellery

  • Ancient Greece until today
  • Neohellenic Jewellery
  • The symbolism of the wedding ring
  • History of Greek Jewellery

THE MIKINAIC ERA

mikinaiki-periodos.jpg In the era of Mikinaic civilization 1600-1400 BC there is a big flourish, in citys-states of continental Greece, in metal art (copper, silver tin, gold) and there is a big development of goldsmith and of processing of semi valuable stone (stamp marking) (stonework).

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neoeliniki-periodos18.jpg Jewellery accompanies man at the major stages in his life cycle, such as birth and marriage, as well as at important moments of expressing love. The tradition of silver and goldmithing in Greece is lost in the mists of time. In Greek mythology Hephaestus, god of fire, the "divine smith", appears as the inventa of metal working. In his Olympian forge he fashioned such magnificent works as Achilles shield, Herakles' golden breast-plate, Zeus' scepter and throne, Ariadnes' wedding crown. In the course of 5000 years miniature creations in metd, noble are base, have made their mark on Hellenic civilization.

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veres.jpgThe choice of the wedding ring that will accompany the finger of the right hand forever is a very important case. What is the symbolization of a Wedding ring?? When the wedding ring established as accustom and by whom? First of all we must clearify that an Engagement ring and a Wedding ring is not the same. The engagement ring borned after 13th century when Pope Innokentios. The P declared that it should be a period between the engagement and the marriage.

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vizantini-periodos6.jpg The beginnings of Greek jewellery can be traced back to remote prehistory. Masterpieces of exceptional workmanship and finesse have been found in Crete and on other Aegean islands where the Minoan civilization flourished, while astonishing are the finds from Mycenae, whose civilization succeeded the Minoan and constituted the basis for the development of historical Greek civilization, nurturing the narrative of the Homeric Epic, as well as the literature and iconography of Antiquity.

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