[Jewelry making - Article 00134] - Re: [Orchid] Twisted Wire Bracelet

[William Denayer]

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>     Hello All, I have been inspired by some Viking jewelry as of late
>     and have been trying to figure out how to do a simple twisted wire
>     bracelet in sterling. 

    I found something really interesting on the net a couple of days
    ago, when doing a search on Michael Good and anticlastic raising.
    Good went to a workshop in Ireland to demonstrate anticlastic rasing.
    An Irish metalsmith asked himself how it was possible to produce
    these very thin twisted bracelets in the iron age. He tried to figure
    it out and eventually came to the conclusion that goldsmiths used two
    deer antlers to generate the curves. According to him, Brian Clarke,
    in no other way it would have been possible to make such very fine
    twisted bracelets. Quite fascinating. See: 

    http://homepage.tinet.ie/~ybc/TorqueProject-1.html 

Best, Will 


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