Most of us simply take pleasure in sporting and jewellery, and rarely cease to consider the artistry and work behind it, or the methods and expertise required to design and create lovely jewellery. But, jewellery is an artwork with particular instruments, particular terminology, and particular methods all its personal. One very particular jewellery approach includes making the connectors that be part of the totally different elements in a chunk of bijou “invisible”.
These “invisible” connectors, because the identify suggests, are hidden; we are able to’t see them connecting the totally different elements of the jewellery, however they’re there simply the identical.
The truth that we are able to’t see these connectors is just not the one motive they’re hidden, although. Jeweler’s usually have their very own methods for creating hidden jewellery connectors, they usually usually need to engineer them anew for every new piece of bijou, making the approach nearly proprietary. Actually, jewelers are sometimes reluctant to share the method they’ve developed for creating hidden connectors.
One of the simplest ways to study them is to check vintage jewellery. Goldsmiths from the previous excelled at creating hidden connectors and there are various lovely examples of vintage jewellery that use hidden connectors of their design. In the present day, we see hidden connectors used primarily by positive jewellery corporations reminiscent of Van Cleef and Arpels, Tiffany, Cartier and so forth.
You can too look at our jewellery undertaking beneath the place we designed and produced a mannequin of an earring with seven hyperlinks utilizing invisible connectors. For the reason that hyperlinks are fairly small, we had to make use of the sprue in such a manner that it could possibly be used as a deal with in the course of the cleansing and sprucing stage. Thus, earlier than the elements had been indifferent from the sprues, they had been nearly all polished. We then related the hyperlinks by utilizing small pins. Lastly, after they had been soldered collectively, we eliminated extra materials in order that the connectors wouldn’t be seen in any respect. The result’s the pair of earrings you see beneath:
Design of hidden connectors for dangling earrings.
Hidden connectors casting
Earrings with “no” connectors.
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