Smalti Filati Micro Mosaic Jewellery: Pendant creative process [HD video]

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PRESENTS THE CREATIVE PROCESS OF FILATI MICRO-MOSAIC JEWELS:⬇︎

time - STEP
0:05 To divide Smalti with Hammer and Hardie
(Martellino and Cuneo)

0:10 - A metal crucible to contains the
glass smalti pieces to be molten

0:13 sample filati jewels done

0:16 Glass is softened and heated

0:25 Molten glass is amalgamated with the pointer tool

0:35 Set and prepared to be modeled with plier and pointer

0:46 We use also marble cuboid and roll over the red hot glass

0:55 Example to obtain a "leaf" or "drop shape" obtain desired shape

1:00 Glass smalti is ready to be pulled "filati"

1:08 Pulling and stretching smalti (so called "filare" the molten smalti glass)

1:11 Needle - Like rods are chopped

1:16 Another rod is ready to be produced (filati)

1:22 A gentle "forth an back" movement is performed
pulling and stretching wisely

1:34 Each time glass is pulled, a thinner is produced rod, been even harder to handle


1:48 After being pulled molten glass smalti are chopped,
producing the needle-like threads of glass smalti

1:52 hand made filati (known as murrina) are obtained with "drop like" shoe
(This form was designed while shaping the smalti)

1:56 Another example of filati rod shape (with a small hole inside)

ROMAN STUCCO RECIPE:

2:02 Roman Stucco: how to rough it out

2:06 A couple of drops of linseed oil are added

2:13 Roman cement or stucco is spread with linseed oil
with the help of a spatula

2:21 Stucco is completely amalgamated by hand

2:34 How to fill the silver gold base with roman stucco

2:53 The smalti rods are filed "cutted and levigated" using a goldsmith's file

3:00 using a goldsmith's tweezers the individual tessera is ready to be
placed into the stucco

3:30 Meticulously tesserae are placed to create the design or theme.

"Like a snowflakes, smalti tesseras will always be one different from another."