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Posted by Toya on July 17, 2014 at 5:12pm

Silver beads and amber chunks

Thelma July 17, 2014 at 6:47pm

Lovely, Toya. Beautiful light hirz and filigree terminals which are splendid in combination with the amber.
Betty July 17, 2014 at 7:57pm

A very fine example - Love it!!! Congratulations.
Patricia Deany July 17, 2014 at 8:49pm

Especially love the filigree work on this one. Looks very delicate and feminine.
ait ouakli July 17, 2014 at 10:12pm

Lovely necklace toya, congrats. A special and old feligree work. Soldered with watter and silver powder,authentic work
Toya July 18, 2014 at 7:18am

Thank you everyone for the nice comments. Ait, I would like to know more about the soldering process you mention. Can you explain how the silver powder is used?
ait ouakli July 18, 2014 at 9:40am

Toya, feligree is thinn and light,it can melt easy if it gets high temperatur needed to meld normal solder
The feligree smiths, make of silver a thinn powder sometime thex mix borax to it. They let it fell on feligree pieces put together and sweeped with a wett cloth or brush
They heat it carefuly and the silver poder melts and keeps the feligree together.it has also another abvatage, you cant see the soldering later and gets homogen
Toya July 18, 2014 at 4:56pm

Ait- thank you for explaining the soldering process. I want to understand more about Yemeni work because it is not something I have collected much. It was the fine filigree that led me to purchase this one.
Tanja C.Rheinheimer July 18, 2014 at 7:27pm

Very beautiful! :-)

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