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Universal Triskelion
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The body of the piece is composed of reticulated silver. A silver Celtic triskelion was directly overlaid onto the piece embracing a sunstone, moonstone, and star diopside in the ends of the curve.
Reticulated silver is special type of silver that begins to buckle and fold when processed properly, creating a beautiful rippled effect. This process is extremely labor intensive and takes no less than nine different steps to accomplish. Because of the difficulty in creating reticulated silver, it cannot be properly created by machine so has never been mass produced. Carl Gustavovich Fabergé, the creator of the famous eggs for Czars Alexander III and Nicholas II of Russia, originally discovered reticulated silver. The process he used to create this unique silver caused it to become very brittle and the patterns would collapse if heated; and so his reticulated silver had to be set like a stone and could not be bent, stamped or otherwise worked. This process was improved at House of Dubhrós, allowing us to create a workable metal.
This piece won first place in silversmithing at the South Central Federation of Mineralogical Societies conference.
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Creation Notes:
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Reticulation, Overlay, Fabrication
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Materials:
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Sterling Silver, Reticulated Silver, Sunstone, Moonstone, Star Diopside
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