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From: Peter W . Rowe
Date: Sat Dec 03 03:58:22 2005
 
     
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>     What do you call "reticulated" what effect would that have on a
>     piece of jewelry? 

    Reticulation is both a technique and a surface finish/texture.
    Normally the word refers to a technique in which a metal sheet is
    partially melted, without quite melting a surface skin or really
    changing the large dimensions of the metal. That surface oxide skin
    holds the sheet in mostly it's shape, but moves around as the
    underlying metal melts and flows a bit. The result is a deep texture
    of surface wrinkles. The previous poster thought that the texture on
    the purple gold looked somewhat like a reticulated texture. I believe
    it is done by physically carving the surface with a cutting tool, not
    by actually reticulating it. But the result, either way, is a
    decorative surface texture.

Peter

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