Filigree Arracadas – Hoops from Jerez
Price: $167.00
These filigree hoops are gorgeous. Repousse technique/ Style is from ancient Mexico (late XIX century)
Beautifully finished, these are lightweight and move graciously with you.
Arracadas are: 4 cm 1.57″
AVAILABLE IN MORE SIZES.
About Repousse
A method of creating a relief design by hammering or pressing the reverse side of a metal surface. Literal meaning in French, “to push back”.
Repousse’ is used to create gold and silver jewelry, plate armour, decorative architectural panels or can be pieced together to produce sculpture in the round such as the Statue of Liberty. see: repoussetools.com
Repoussé (French pronunciation: [ʁəpuse] ( listen)) or repoussage [ʁəpusaʒ] ( listen) is a metalworking technique in which a malleable metal is ornamented or shaped by hammering from the reverse side to create a design in low relief. There are few techniques that offer such diversity of expression while still being relatively economical. Chasing is the opposite technique to repoussé, and the two are used in conjunction to create a finished piece. It is also known as embossing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repoussé_and_chasing.
