Curb chain weaving

Women's gold chains have always looked very beautiful and gentle on the neck. This very organic and self-sufficient jewelry can perfectly fit into any image and become its highlight. One of the advantages of chains is that they can act as an independent piece of jewelry or come with a pendant or pendant. Modern jewelry stores offer the widest selection of jewelry made from different precious metals. Chains occupy a special place in shop windows, as they are always the first to attract the attention of buyers.

Before you buy a chain, you should decide on some details that directly affect the price of the product and its appearance. First you need to decide what metal your jewelry will be made of, then choose the knitting method, filling the links, and at the very end decide on the type of weaving and style.

As a rule, jewelry is made from three metals: gold, silver and platinum. Much will depend on the purity, sample and type of metal when determining the price. Each metal has several sample options that indicate its purity, as well as the presence of other impurities in the alloy.

Technological breakthrough has allowed many professions to significantly facilitate the work, innovations have also touched the jewelry market.If earlier all products were made by hand, now machines have come to the aid of the craftsmen, which do their job no worse than themselves, but still they do not reach the strength of hand weaving. That is why most jewelers still try to stick to the traditional way of doing their work, since it is the proven method that ensures the high quality of their work and allows you to securely fasten each link.

In total, there are three methods of chain knitting: stamping, machine and hand knitting.

Hand knitting the most complex, expensive and traditional, but at the same time the most durable and durable. This method requires great patience, perseverance, as well as jewelry talent. To begin with, the metal wire is stretched onto a spiral machine, with the help of which links of the desired diameter and size are cut, and then the chain linker manually connects each link in a certain order to obtain the desired pattern. Then the links are soldered and, if the decoration should be flat, the chain is passed through the jewelry rollers.

Machine knitting performs special equipment designed for knitting jewelry. When stamping, ready-made links are used, but they are not soldered, but simply threaded into one another. Unfortunately, such products do not have high strength and are most often subject to deformation.

Another choice that buyers face is the type of wire. Chains are made from two types of metal wire:wasted or whole. Hollow products are only visually swollen and massive, in fact, they are empty from the inside, and in terms of weight, these products, as a rule, are not at all heavy. But the price of such jewelry is much lower.

After selecting all of the above criteria, the buyer is faced with the choice of the type of weaving, on which the appearance, beauty and price of the product depend. The quality of the chain and its durability depend on the type of weaving. There are five types in total: anchor, shell, bismarck, fancy and twisted, each of which has its own several subspecies. In this article, we will focus specifically on the armored weaving of chains.

Many jewelers believe that the armored look is a type of anchor, but there are those who distinguish it separately. The links are twisted so that a visual sensation of the plane of the jewelry is created.

Armored chain weaving has several subspecies:

• Double curb weaving implies the connection of two links through time;

• AT parallel links are connected parallel to each other;

• The smooth thin chain is called "Snake"

• Singapore, where the links are twisted in a spiral

• In method Love and Clip the names are self-explanatory and the links look like little hearts and stationery

• Way rhombo has a diamond-shaped arrangement of links, which outwardly looks like a traditional armored

• Korda has weaving in the form of twisted ropes

• openwork weaving Nonna has a very beautiful and delicate appearance and is intended for women.Literally, this name is from Italian as "grandmother", which explains a little the appearance of weaving, as if knitted by a grandmother with knitting needles. The peculiarity of this method is that the shells are connected not with neighboring links, but with two at once: one large and one small. Outwardly, it seems that two chains of different sizes are woven into each other. Nonna chains are incredibly durable and of high quality, and it is the way they are knitted that gives them endurance, which requires painstaking and long work.

• Another way is Figaro or, as it is also called, Cartier. This method got its first name directly for the weaving method, and the second one thanks to the world-famous French jewelry house of the same name. It was the Cartier brand that made Figaro weaving world-famous, since it was this type that was most often used. A feature of this type of chain is that when knitting it, a different combination of alternating links is used. For example, there is the Figaro five to one method, which means alternating five short links with one long one. There are also four-to-one, three-to-one, and two-to-one methods. In this case, the thickness, length or diameter of the links is not precisely determined. It all depends on the personal taste preferences of the buyer.

The length of the chain with shell weaving can vary, depending on the desire of the customer, from forty to seventy centimeters. Special attention should also be paid to this point, since it is the length that will determine which zone will be underlined.

Chains with the armor knitting method have a number of advantages over other methods. The feature of the ligament of links is outwardly very beautiful, while it is suitable for both men and women. This item is in many ways very convenient, since very often massive chains or bracelets are bought for a long time and passed down from generation to generation, respectively, thanks to the unisex style, you can give jewelry to both grandson and granddaughter.

Another advantage of armored weaving chains is their self-sufficiency. A beautiful way of knitting gives the jewelry an original look and can be worn as an independent piece of jewelry or as a set with a pendant. It is worth paying attention to the fact that the chains are very bright and the pendants for them should be selected appropriate in size and appearance. Many customers, when buying a massive chain with wide links, additionally ask for a diamond cut, which gives the jewelry an even richer and more luxurious look.

Shell weaving is one of the most durable, thanks to the strong connection of the links, respectively, they are less likely to deform or deteriorate, which means that such a chain will last much longer and better retain its original appearance even after many years.

It is precisely because of the strength of knitting that many jewelers agree to work with gold of the highest standard 999. This test is very soft and requires special skills to handle it, and not all chains will be able to maintain a beautiful appearance, and not every master will take up weaving a gold chain 999 And armor guarantees the maximum durability of a product made of gold of any sample.