Foil Backed Foil backing (or foiling) is a gemstone surface enhancement technique where a thin sheet of metal or other material (sometimes colored) is placed behind the gemstone in order to reflect more light, and/or color, back into the stone and then towards the...
Gaud A gaud is a charm or trinket typically found at the end of a rosary. They could be fashioned as a crucifix or other small medallion depicting a Biblical scene or saint. A spherical type of gaud called a nut was carved from boxwood...
Germanic Jewelry During the Migration period (5th century AD) Germanic tribes settled throughout Europe. Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Vandals, Angles, Saxons, Franks, Lombards and many more tribes that had been living on the eastern sides of the rivers Rhine and Danube had...
Gothic Then arose new architects who after the manner of their barbarous nations erected buildings in that style which we call Gothic.1 The Gothic period is a late medieval period in art history that spans from roughly 1140 to 1500 AD, with some continuance in the...
Gothic Jewelry After Romanesque jewelry fell from fashion a new style emerged. Although parallels with the architectural style are minimal the style has been named Gothic. The architectural style already rose in the 12th century but the change in jewelry style lasted...
