. Silverwork and jewelery; a text-book for students and workers in metal, by H. Wilson. the shoulder whenworn. Cut a circle out of thin copper or brass4^ in. in diameter. Have ready the stonesyou desire to use, and some flattened wireor rolled twist. Make a few flattenedbeads, and then sketch out the designwhich suggests itself when you have ar-ranged the stones according to their pre-ciousness and color. You will find thatthe mere symmetrical arrangement of thestones round the circle will suggest almostinstantly any number of methods of treat-ment. Choose what seems the simplest,and twist up
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. Silverwork and jewelery; a text-book for students and workers in metal, by H. Wilson. the shoulder whenworn. Cut a circle out of thin copper or brass4^ in. in diameter. Have ready the stonesyou desire to use, and some flattened wireor rolled twist. Make a few flattenedbeads, and then sketch out the designwhich suggests itself when you have ar-ranged the stones according to their pre-ciousness and color. You will find thatthe mere symmetrical arrangement of thestones round the circle will suggest almostinstantly any number of methods of treat-ment. Choose what seems the simplest, and twist up your wire to form knots orwreaths round the stones (fig. 58), andthen arrange for the chains and loopswhich will be needed to link all up to-gether. Avoid the use of shop-made chains;they spoil the eflfect of the most carefullydevised necklace. The only chain possibleto use is that called Venetian chain, buteven that is not quite satisfactory. Theway to secure a good effect of chain-workis to coil up the links yourself. This isbest done by taking a piece of flattened8 113 Necklaces. 114 Fig. 58. wire, oblong in section, with the edges Necklacesrounded off with the file. This is toserve as the mandrel, and its size is regu-lated by the size of the links you desire.Wrap a strip of thin paper spirally roundthe mandrel, and secure it at each end witha few turns of binding-wire. Then takethe wire, which may be simple or compoundas described for rings, and fix the mandrel Fig. 59. in a bench vise if the wire to be coiled isthick, or in a hand-vise if it be thin. Coilthe wire spirally round the mandrel veryclosely and regularly until you have usedas much wire as you require (fig. 59).Heat the whole with the blowpipe onthe mop until the paper is charred away.You can now withdraw the mandrel fromthe coil, which would be impossible were 115 Necklaces the paper not used. With a jewelers fret-saw cut off the Hnks lengthwise downthe spiral, keeping this cut as clean aspossible. You can then