Jewelery making course

Goldsmithing is the art of working gold and other precious metals, such as colored silver and platinum, to obtain artistic objects. Goldsmith art is closely related to jewelry, whose artifacts use precious metals as binders for the production of gemstone jewelry. The processing of gold, which was one of the first metals to be used for its indestructibility and malleability, is mostly identical to the ancient one: the jewels are in fact obtained by casting and made using various techniques, such as chisel, mold, embossed, filigree, pods. The extreme rarity of precious metals has led over time to a reuse of objects made in ancient times, which were melted for new creations, and the few testimonies that have survived up to us mainly concern specimens found in the funeral objects. The situation is different for ancient Greece, for which there have not been many specimens also due to the difficulty of finding the raw material, at least until the Hellenistic age, during which the expansion towards the East favored the arrival of large quantities gold and the making of many and various artistic objects. With jewelery we indicate both the set of techniques for working metals and noble stones to obtain ornaments, and ornamental objects made of a precious metal, in which at least one precious stone is usually set, and objects of the category. For many centuries metals such as gold used in different carats of 21, 18, 12, 9 or even lower,