The jeweler set
How jewelry is built: ring settings cut open, hairwork braided with bobbins, and cameos carved down through a shell's color layers. Construction, not value.
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Six ring settings in cross-section: bezel, prong, closed back, pavé, channel and gypsy. In Cellini's 16th-century account, a closed back hid colored foil.
"Stirrup Ring" by Unknown maker — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stirrup_Ring_MET_DP701987.jpg — CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
Victorian hairwork includes braids made over a mold on a round table with weighted bobbins, as Campbell's 1867 manual shows, and hair laid flat under glass.
"Broche met haar van de dichteres Petronella Moens" by Unknown maker — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Broche_met_haar_van_de_dichteres_Petronella_Moens,_BK-NM-1120.jpg — CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
In a shell cameo such as The Met's brooch of about 1835, the white figure and brown ground are one piece of shell; Wedgwood's jasper cameos used moulds.
"Cameo" by George W. Jamison; William Rose — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cameo_MET_DP167073.jpg — CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
