[Jewelry making - Article 01045] - Re: [Orchid] Japanese metalwork books?

[jkbrennan]

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>     Can anyone recommend a book(s) that features high quality photographs
>     of Japanese metalwork, particularly jewellery and decorative metal
>     objects?  I'm thinking of stuff using silver, gold and especially the
>     traditional Japanese alloys shaku-do, shibu-ichi, etc.

    This was put together to send to someone I met at a workshop  not
    particularly what you asked for but here it is: 

    http://home.earthlink.net/~jggilbert/tsuba.htm 
    http://www.knives.com/tsuba.html 
    http://pages.prodigy.net/tlbuck/tsuka/tsuka.htm 
    http://home.planet.nl/~sebregts/index.html 
    http://members.chello.se/vikingbronze/vikingbronze.htm 

    I have see this done: 

    http://inaba.nims.go.jp/movie/TATARA/tatara.html 
    http://inaba.nims.go.jp/movie/tatara/English.html 
    http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~hn7y-mur/mononoke/monolink11link1e.htm 

    have a bit of video but never edited it -- will have to find it. 

    Books: 

    The craft of the Japanese Sword
    http://www.ganoksin.com/jewelry-books/us/product/087011798X.htm 

    Mokume Gane - A Comprehensive Study 
    http://www.ganoksin.com/jewelry-books/us/product/0965165078.htm 

    Mokume Gane ISBN  0713661569 

jesse

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