Sterling silver ethnic earrings for women, bohemian jewelry, Filigree Earrings.

Sterling silver earrings, bohemian jewelry, ethnic jewelry, Earrings for woman, Sterling silver earrings, Filigree Earrings.

Sterling silver earrings combining a half-sphere set with a semi-precious stone connected to a filigree-work triangle, a silver cylinder and a drop-shaped crystal. Different stones are available by order. Made in Israel.

What is Filigree - Filigrana
Filigree (formerly written filigrann or filigrane) is a jewel work of a delicate kind made with twisted threads usually of gold and silver or stitching of the same curvy motif.

It often suggests lace, and is most popular in French fashion decoration from 1660 to the present.

Filigree involves threads being soldered together to form an object and ajoure involves holes being punched, drilled, or cut through an existing piece of metal.

Uses:

The art may be said to consist in curling, twisting and plaiting fine pliable threads of metal, and uniting them at their points of contact with each other, and with the ground, by means of gold or silver solder and borax, by the help of the blowpipe. Small grains or beads of the same metals are often set in the eyes of volutes, on the junctions, or at intervals at which they will set off the wire-work effectively.

The more delicate work is generally protected by framework of stouter wire.

Brooches, crosses, earrings and other personal ornaments of modern filigree are generally surrounded and subdivided by bands of square or flat metal, giving consistency to the filling up, which would not otherwise keep its proper shape.