Casting

Making jewellery

A common method for making brooches and other jewellery was the 'lost wax' process:

1.take a clay mould of an already existing brooch

2.make a wax model from that mould

3.touch up the wax model - making changes as you see fit

4.make a clay mould from the wax

5.cast another brooch

A good paper on the subject can be found here: [1]

more information needed... Some images available for this topic.

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  modern mould based on found brooch

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  wax casting from mould

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  the original brooches

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  mould of bronze, possibly a master for making wax casts to produce the clay mould

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  one half of a soapstone mould for making clothing pins

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  a clay mould with museum test cast in bronze