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\u00a0 Repousse’ means working your metal from the back or reverse side to create a raised effect.\u00a0 Many students have a hard time telling the difference between repousse’ and chasing, another technique used to texture or raise metal.\u00a0 The distinction is simple, though.\u00a0 Repousse’ is working metal from the back and chasing is working metal from the front.\u00a0 In the case of Julie’s bail (what the chain goes through)\u00a0 we started with a simple drawing on paper of the three wires used to get the right proportion to the pendant and to make sure it would accommodateher chain.\u00a0 We usually just have the student cut out the drawing and hold it up to the pendant to see if the size works.\u00a0 Once the proportion looked right, Julie used three 22 gauge fine silver wires for the “bones” of her bail, the center one straight and the two outsides wires curved to meet at the two ends.\u00a0 They are fused down flat to .010 fine silver and cut out.\u00a0 This is when the repousse’ comes in.\u00a0 Julie used highly polished daps (Remember: any nick or scratch on your tool gets transferred immediately to your piece!) to press the metal in smoothly between the wires.\u00a0 This is done on top of a piece of leather but folded up paper towels have also worked just fine.\u00a0 After the grooves look even and the edges well defined, you flip it over, anneal and gently bend to bring the ends together.\u00a0 A bail is born.\u00a0 Julie did a beautiful job on her bail and the rest of her piece.\u00a0 Well done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Congratulations to our latest Student of the Week- Julie Low.\u00a0 This fabulous granulated pendant is all the more impressive when you know that this was\u00a0made during Julie’s second semester.\u00a0 That isn’t a lot of classes to be accomplishing something on this level.\u00a0 We have discussed granulation recently so I thought we could go over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}