[Jewelry making - Article 00324] - Re: [Orchid] Beaded wire

[Len and Judy Bjorkman]

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>    Does anyone have any idea how it was made in ancient times?

    Stephen, I can't speak for the medieval period, but in Jack Ogden's
    book, Jewellery of the Ancient World (Rizzoli; 1982), he shows how
    ornamental wire, including beaded wire, was made, from the
    mid-second millennium BC onward.  See especially pp. 52-57 and
    Figures 4:38 (tools to  produce beading) and 4:45 (beading produced
    "by hammering a gold wire into  a line of conical holes in a metal
    die"). 

    Ogden also refers to Theophilus (12th century AD), whose book, On
    Divers Art, is available as a Dover paperback.  See pp. 88-90 for a
    discussion of the tool(s) used for swaging beaded wire. 

Judy Bjorkman

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