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Filigree Style Garnet Choker

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A few months ago my father took me to a bead shop in downtown Seattle and I found these gorgeous, round, garnet beads. I wanted to make something delicate that would feature them and came up with this design. The choker is about 14 1/2 inches in length and the set has (as a friend put it) "a very medieval feel." The looping design makes me think of old filigree pieces. Made with 22 gauge, half-hard 14 karat gold filled wire.

Gold filled wire is made by fusing gold to a core of base metal (usually brass) and then pulling it into wire. It contains 100 times more gold than gold-plated wire and wears just as well as pure gold. There's no risk of the gold wearing off the base metal and people with sensitive skin usually react no worse to gold-filled wire than they would to pure gold. Gold filled wire is great because it allows poor artisans like myself to produce a quality product at less than half the cost of using pure gold. This also means that we don't have to charge potential customers an outrageous sum for our pieces.
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768x1024px 424.78 KB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon PowerShot A85
Shutter Speed
1/15 second
Aperture
F/4.5
Focal Length
13 mm
Date Taken
Jan 24, 2007, 6:41:42 PM
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Parschmet's avatar
This is awesome! You should start a business of this!