Types of weaving silver chains and bracelets

Even in ancient times, sil­ver was val­ued as a sacred mate­r­i­al, which was con­sid­ered a sym­bol of the puri­ty of the fam­i­ly. He was cred­it­ed with the abil­i­ty to heal from ail­ments and pro­tect from evil spir­its and mis­for­tunes. Adher­ing to the ancient tra­di­tions of jew­el­ry, arti­sans made sil­ver chains and bracelets, in which links alter­nate with amulets, and sets with hand­made cross­es. Thanks to the jew­el­ry crafts­man­ship, chains of dif­fer­ent types and weaves have become real mas­ter­pieces. Mod­ern jew­el­ry design­ers offer a vari­ety of chain mod­els for men and women — long and short, thin and mas­sive. They can become an inde­pen­dent acces­so­ry, com­ple­ment an ele­gant pen­dant or a bright pen­dant.

Silver bracelets and chains: the main types of weaving (photo)

Accord­ing to the man­u­fac­tur­ing tech­nol­o­gy, weav­ing is flat, embossed and fig­ured.

By way of exe­cu­tion:

• machine — stamped chain weaves are assem­bled on a spe­cial machine from sep­a­rate blanks. They twist eas­i­ly and are con­sid­ered not very strong;
• man­u­al — the most reli­able weav­ing of sil­ver chains. The crafts­man does a long labo­ri­ous job, cut­ting the sil­ver wire, form­ing links from it, and then con­nect­ing them. Such prod­ucts do not stick to clothes.

Many types of sil­ver jew­el­ry can be made exclu­sive­ly by hand. Clas­sic chains — anchor. They have straight links con­nect­ed per­pen­dic­u­lar­ly, and oval or round ones are attached in the cen­ter of the par­ti­tion. When they go into each oth­er sev­er­al pieces at once, it is called a cord.

Accord­ing to the den­si­ty of links, fash­ion­able weav­ing of sil­ver chains is dou­ble and triple cords. A thong chain, depend­ing on the thick­ness, can become a self-suf­fi­cient dec­o­ra­tion for a man or a woman, cre­at­ing a har­mo­nious set with a pen­dant matched to the style.

Anoth­er type of anchor weav­ing is called “Venet­ian”. It con­sists of thin and flat anchors, looks very ele­gant. Dis­tin­guish between straight and twist­ed Venet­ian tech­nique.

Sil­ver weav­ing of bracelets, neck­laces and chains, when small ele­ments inside large ones are placed in the same plane, is called “shell”. By the num­ber of con­nec­tions, it is also sin­gle, dou­ble or triple. One of the types of such prod­ucts is a rhom­bus shell. This is a pret­ty sol­id option. A more refined ver­sion of the shell is Sin­ga­pore­an weav­ing, which con­sists of curved ele­ments. In the female ver­sion, it is called “non­na” and includes large and small round­ed links.

How to choose chains and bracelets for men

The most pop­u­lar — men’s weav­ing of sil­ver bracelets and chains — the alter­na­tion of long and short links of black­ened and white sil­ver, is called “figaro”.

The tra­di­tion­al Bis­mar­ck is espe­cial­ly pop­u­lar among high-sta­tus politi­cians and busi­ness­men. It is char­ac­ter­ized by a dense arrange­ment of spi­ral ele­ments in rela­tion to each oth­er. Ide­al for men with a medi­um to tight ath­let­ic build. Its vari­eties:

• roy­al knit, often called Byzan­tine or fox tail. This weav­ing is used in the man­u­al pro­duc­tion of chains with an open­work com­po­si­tion, con­sist­ing of links of the same type, direct­ed in one direc­tion. They pro­duce a clas­sic, round, semi­cir­cu­lar and fox tail with an oval or square sec­tion;
• Moscow;
• car­di­nal;
• python, or Ital­ian weav­ing, is used in the man­u­fac­ture of both men’s and wom­en’s hand­made chains. Wom­en’s vari­a­tions — abi­na­tion and glam­or — have a less dense struc­ture. To obtain the effect of mas­sive­ness, jew­el­ers use two-strand weav­ing.

The most unusual chain weaving

There are types of fan­tas­tic weav­ing tech­niques using unusu­al link geom­e­try, alter­nat­ing parts of dif­fer­ent shapes and shades of sil­ver that do not belong to any group of weaves to any type of weave.

The sun­burst tech­nique cre­ates shiny thin and sharp links resem­bling nee­dles.

The options inspired by Asian exoti­cism look orig­i­nal. In the Shang­hai and Bei­jing tra­di­tions, ele­ments dec­o­rat­ed with Chi­nese or Japan­ese char­ac­ters alter­nate. The wan­qing tech­nique uses a com­bi­na­tion of links in the form of rings of dif­fer­ent sizes and cof­fee beans.

An inno­v­a­tive way of weav­ing is embod­ied in the flat neck­laces of Mon­tre­al and Paris. They con­sist of three sep­a­rate thin met­al chains of dif­fer­ent col­ors.

The ser­pen­tine struc­ture resem­bles a smooth tex­tile cord. The flat tape sur­face of the links may have an oval, round or rec­tan­gu­lar sec­tion.

Weav­ing, which is called “per­lin”, which trans­lates as pearls, resem­bles a neck­lace, con­sist­ing of spher­i­cal, cylin­dri­cal, smooth or faceted ele­ments. It is so self-suf­fi­cient that it does not require sus­pen­sion.

Wear­ing volu­mi­nous fan­ta­sy mod­els requires a sense of pro­por­tion. This is the main con­di­tion under which they will look good in both casu­al and ele­gant style.

Men are advised to give pref­er­ence to large chains with a sim­ple design. For girls — thin and medi­um thick­ness open­work mod­els. They visu­al­ly reju­ve­nate, give the face fresh­ness. Ladies of mature age fit long neck­laces with fan­cy weav­ing, dec­o­rat­ed with pen­dants. Short chains can be worn with any out­fit except hood­ies and turtle­neck sweaters. Prod­ucts of medi­um length up to 45 cm, up to chest lev­el, are designed for the neck­line. Very long, from 75 cm, should be worn over cloth­ing with­out a cutout. A large pen­dant or cross will not look nice on a thin chain. A har­mo­nious set of a bracelet worn on the hand and a chain around the neck must be select­ed so that it is made using the same weav­ing tech­nique.