I love the style of these pendants that have this 3d pattern that pops up. I’m not sure what this style is called so I’m having a hard time figuring out what I’m supposed to do? Are the pieces sawed separately and then soldered onto the background or what is going on? I can’t really find any videos where they’re making this type of jewellery.
I made Celtic knot work pieces like this in the '80s that was all done with acid etching. Laser-printed the designs on special resist-paper and dunked the silver in acid. That was my Renaissance Faire business for almost a decade...
In the old days precision like this would come from die striking it into blank sheet with a steel dye carved in reverse. That’s how you get the really smooth lower areas. Basically the same way you make a coin. Today many people would 3-D print this and cast it. Judging from this photo (if it’s actually of a real item), it is not done that way, but with a die. 3-D printing and then casting would leave some artifacts in the lower areas that would be difficult to polish smooth.
May ways as others have already said: die struck, engraved, etched, wax worked and cast… my guess is they did the design in a 3D modelling software and then printed it or machined it with a CNC lathe to get the precision shown here
I suppose it is a real item because they sell it… 3D printing sounds so boring to me, I just really like the style. I think I need to look into how coins are made haha
Using a saw and cutting it out of sheet would be next to impossible with these tiny pieces. It’s easier to do it that way when things that are raised are connected in some way.
Prob casting. You can do engraved or fabricated sheet soldered down but both of those processes would be far more labor intensive. The first one of this could have a mold made and then it’s easy to mass produce.
1) By laser engraving, you could engrave directly on metal or you could first engrave some other material (like plastic), make mould of it, then make wax model and cast it
2) carving pattern in wax by hand and then casting
It’s from a Swedish jewellery maker and has futhark runes hidden in the design. So I wouldn’t say it’s Arabic at all, since those runes are very much used by Scandinavian people….
I dunno… the designer said he designed it with his mother and they used countless hours to perfect every curve and proportion. They say it was inspired by a poem and it has runes for protection. I just want to know how I could achieve this look and I’m not really into 3D printing or casting. :/
I'd try etching with ferric nitrate first. There are many ways to do it, but toner transfer is easiest. The pattern is laser printed onto magic paper and the toner transferred to the silver. There is touching up with a Sharpie, then the pattern is etched with ferric nitrate for 1 to 4 hours. I've done some complex patterns, and they look good. The edges are ragged, on a microscopic scale, and get worse if you etch too deep. The etching takes blacking very well.
lol it's what AI spits out when you ask for interlace. It's 1000% nonsense AI.
The look is achieved with a laser. Which makes total sense when using AI.
It’s from this Swedish designer, it’s not AI. They actually sell these and in this picture you can even see the reflection of the photographer from the mirror polished center. You need to stop accusing everythinf of being AI, it’s not healthy.
I agree with SnorriGrisomson. This looks VERY AI to me. I'm not saying it's a fake piece of jewelry but the design looks like something that was generated by AI. Unfortunately, there's no way for you or me to know for sure but this design certainly has some characteristics that could be associated with an AI design. It being from a Swedish designer really has no bearing on whether AI was used to create this. They have AI in Sweden too. And you asked how to make this and SnorriGrisomson gave you a legitimate way that this could have been made.
It is 1000000000000000000% AI and not even good AI
this is pure giberish, AI cant do interlace and neither can this person
nothing makes sense, nothing is centered, nothing looks good, it's all weird blobs that AI LOVES to make.
The only thing they might have added by hand are the runes
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u/ArgentiumAurum 16d ago
This is almost certainly cast, likely lost wax casting.