Silverwork and jewelery; a text-book for students and workers in metal, by H. Wilson (1903)
Wilson, H · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 143
Brooches back the stoLe with a piece of white foilto give it greater brilliancy. Another wayof setting stones in the background ofany panel is to beat out a hollow fromthe back into which the stone exactly fits.You will then pierce out all of this excepta narrow piece just sufficient to retainthe… … Fig. 75. a narrow setting of thin silver and filethe edge either wavy or scalloped or ser-rated, and solder it in behind as shown(fig. 75). This forms a subsidiary setting,136 and when all is complete the stone can be Broochesdropped into its place and a piece of roundwire, bent to the curve of the…
Silverwork · Jewelry
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