[Jewelry making - Article 01124] - Re: [Orchid] Medieval pearl setting

[Ron Charlotte]

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    From the museum pieces I've taken a good close look at, and the
    photos in my reference books (Jewelry: 7000 Years is a great
    reference (ISBN 0-8109-8103-3)), there seems to have been two ways
    this was done. 

    Where the pin through the pearl/stone is fixed to the body of the
    object, they typically peened the end of the wire into a "rivet"
    head, sometime with decorative effects done in the peening process.
    All of the ones where the end of the wire is an actual ball, the
    other end of the wire is wrapped in to an eye and it's a pendant
    attachment to the body of the piece. Often, there is a snippet of
    wire soldered on the shaft of the wire to keep the stone in place
    (this is how the pearl/bead headed hair and hat pins were done) There
    are a number of examples where all they did was loop the end and bend
    it down flat to the surface of the pearl/stone. 

    Remember, most of their hot work was done in air driven charcoal
    fires, with a few instances of a blowpipe and candle/oil flame being
    used to provide spot heat.

Ron Charlotte -- Gainesville, FL
ronch2 AT bellsouth.net OR afn03234 AT afn.org

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