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#jewelleryfacts365 276/365 Platinum fact
Platinum is rare. To produce a single ounce of platinum, a total of 10 tons of ore must be mined. In comparison, only three tons of ore are required to produce one ounce of gold.
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#jewelleryfacts365 275/365 Ancient Egypt jewellery fact
Thursday, May 4, 2017
Faience is a mixture of powdered clays and lime, soda and silica sand. Mix this with a little water to make a paste and molded around a small stick or bit of straw. Now it is ready to be fired into a bead. As the bead heats up the soda sand and lime melt into glass that incorporates and covers the clay. The result is a hard bead covered in bluish glass. This process was probably discovered first in Mesopotamia and then imported to Egypt. But, it was the Egyptians who made it their own art form. Since before the 1st dynasty of Narmer(3100 B.C.) to the last dynasty of the Ptolomies(33 B.C.) and to the present day, faience beads have been made in the same way.
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| Egyptian faience and glass necklace |
#jewelleryfacts365 274/365 Copper fact
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
In the New World the Aztecs also used copper for medical purposes. Don Francisco de Mendoza commissioned two learned Aztec Indian physicians to record the pharmacological treatments known by the Aztecs at the time of the Conquest. For the treatment of "Faucium Calor" (literally, heat of the throat, or, sore throat) they prescribed gargling with a mixture of ingredients containing copper. (source)
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Ivory can be taken from dead animals – however, most ivory came from elephants that were killed for their tusks. For example, in 1930 to acquire 40 tons of ivory required the killing of approximately 700 elephants.
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| In 2011, some 17,000 African elephants were killed for their tusks |
Creation of "The Vine" candle holder. Behind the scene. Guest post by VZBRELO
This is one the guest posts by the VZBRELO girls. You can find a list of all their "behind the scene" posts here.
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Isn't this candle-holder absolutely magical? Elfs are lining up for this! :)
Let's watch how it is made! Maria, the author, will tell us her story.
Hi, I am Maria. Here is one of my new works. If you are reading this blog, you've seen some of my other posts here. Today I am inviting you behind the scene. You will see how I've created this candle holder. The idea of it was quick, however, the making was not fast at all. It took me longer than any of my other projects.
I started with a drawing as usual:
It does not look like a hard work yet:
Looks rough for now:
Getting somewhere! What needed to be rounded, got rounded, what needed to be removed, got removed:
I am ready for texturing:
The design of the candle holder base follows the direction of the vine. I did not think of the wood grain when I started working on it, but that was ok with the lime tree that I used. I love working with the conifers, but I am glad it weren't any of those... They are not as forgiving to the artist who do not think about things like that beforehand!
Now I am staining:
Finally I can assemble and lacquer it!
I cannot always remember to photograph every step... So I skipped some while attaching the crystals... Sorry!
All done! (and I am quite proud of the result!)
Thank you for reading my story!
Maria
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