Restoring a golden touch
By Kitty Go | China Daily | Updated: 2013-12-16 07:47
Two collections featuring a clover-leaf motif revive the painstaking procedure of gold beading, a technique originating in Mesopotamia. Kitty Go reports in Hong Kong.
The use of gold beads as a decorating technique called granulation dates back to 2500 BC as evident in royal tombs from Ur in Mesopotamia (known today as Iraq).
It then spread throughout the Middle East. This ancient art was embraced in Egypt during the Twelfth Dynasty (1991-1783 BC) when jewelry making reached its peak, particularly in gold-smithing.
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