repousse

You should take a special book to wrap with your repousse cover.

Each part of a figure is hammered from within using a technique known as repousse.

The surface of the bowl is decorated with a chased repousse technique.

He estimates that only 1 percent of the metalworkers at crafts shows work in repousse.

Two equally large gold pectorals, with surfaces of raised work called repousse, are older, from the 19th century, she said.

There is also good evidence that bronze repousse bands decorated the wooden gates.

The vessel is rare - only one other example survives - and is a tour de force of repousse.

The different pitches are used preferentially and according to the type of chasing and repousse work being done.

Now he uses an ancient process called repousse, working with the metal on a bed of heated pitch, "like a gooey black tar."

There are different metals you can use for chasing and repousse work, such as drawn steel, silicon bronze, copper, gold, silver and pewter.

Once the repousse is done - the design raised, the piece is inverted, and the voids are filled with warm pitch to help maintain its shape.

And Ron Brady's silver jewelry has intricate designs made with hammers and punches, in the classical technique called repousse.

Kelatan's silversmiths use two techniques, the "filigree" and "repousse," and items range from the purely ornamental to the functional.

The shop in Paterson is producing miniature reproductions of the statue's flame for museums and collectors, employing the same repousse technique used for the original.

They lost me after that; as far as I knew, they might have been incanting when they started throwing around terms like repousse and lost wax.

One item not supplied by Tuesby & Cooper, nor by the other two warehousemen, were coronets, both the repousse and the three-dimensional type.

Tombak is easy and soft to work by hand: hand tools can easily punch, cut, enamel, repousse, engrave, gilt or etch it.

"Using repousse, we can adorn gate railings or stair railings with foliage," Mr. Wiart said.

Sometimes the bowl and lid of the thurible are decorated with crosses or icons in repousse, and may even be decorated with semi-precious stones.

Gilbert Marks's fine repousse and the exquisite enamel work of Phoebe Traquir figure prominently here too, as does a gold Tiffany clock.

In 1674 he built a Shikara-style Shiva temple with a gilded repousse mask of the God on each side in Bhaktapu.

These gold cylinders/cubes are composed of openwork, filigree, medallions with images of saints in repousse and settings of precious stones.

SOFT METAL James Caudle works in a medium that few artists pursue - lead repousse.

The technique, known as repousse, involves hammering designs on the underside of the plate, then refining them on the outside by delicate "chasing" with chisels and punches.

Some of the work here is very fancy, particularly that done in repousse, which involves placing a sheet of silver over a resilient surface, then working it with chasing tools and punches.