A unique, handmade ring as beautifully complex as what it represents. Here, yellow gold, white gold, and sterling silver are folded together to create a woodgrain pattern.
Mokume gane is made in a similar process to damascus steel, using precious, non-ferrous metals.
Each ring is one-of-a-kind.
Description
Contact for sizing/pricing. Made-to-order.
Metal: mokume of 18K yellow gold, 14K palladium white gold, and sterling silver
Band: Domed, 3mm shown. Other widths available.
Mokume Gane: Mokume gane (木目金) is a process of laminating sheets of metal then carving and forging that laminate to produce patterns that often resemble wood grain. It is a process not dissimilar to pattern-welding steel (Damascus), but utilizes non-ferrous metals such as gold, silver, and palladium. Shoami Denbei (1651-1727), a master metal worker, is credited with developing the mokume gane technique. His earliest work with mokume gane is from the early 1700’s, but almost nothing is known about how Shoami developed the process of mokume-gane.
The Jewelbox works closely with James Binnion, a modern master of the craft.
