[Jewelry making - Article 00381] - Re: [Orchid] Beaded wire

[Stephen Walker]

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    Thank-you Eileen and the several others who have answered my query. I
    have learned that Naimh Whitfields's 1998 article in "Jewellery
    Studies" most likely has the information I seek and a reprint is being
    sent to me. I will pass on what I learn after I have read it. Several
    other articles by Naimh Whitfield that I have seen show that she
    clearly understands her subject, both technically and content. I was
    looking at an article that compared the Tara Brooch and the
    Hunterston Brooch, both Celtic circa 7th or 8th centuries. The beaded
    wire granulation work on the Tara brooch is much more complex, but I
    notice in her enlarged photographs that the quality of the beaded wire
    in the Hunterston brooch is better, with the beads showing a more
    sherical and distinct crispness. There does not appear to be any sign
    of a parting line like you would expect from a stamping die, so i am
    betting that the medieval smiths rolled round wire in some kind of
    tooling, not like a rolling mill, but like between grooved plates.
    That is speculation on my part. However they did it it would seem to
    me that the difficulty would be making the tooling rather than using
    it to make the beaded wire. 

Stephen Walker

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