Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good bright condition. Some light tanning and marking due to age. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> To describe the creation of jewellery by lost wax or cire-perdue as a new modern craft would seem to be a contradiction in terms as this form of casting has been traced back over 3000 years B.C. Yet it is only within the last few decades that the process has be- come more widely used in this country and even then only infrequently outside the Jewellery and Dental trades and a few specialised Colleges of Art. Basically the process is a simple one. A facsimile (the pattern) of the piece to be cast is first modelled in wax and is then surrounded by a liquid slurry of refractory plaster called investment (see Fig. 1). When set the investment usually surrounded in a metal cylinder is heated to melt out the wax and leave the mould cavity. (SP)