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Artisans gold filigree Artists of British

"In the early stages of the skilled worker receives the stone that has been reduced to dust .. he rubs on a scale inclined plate water pouring over it all the time, then the matter in it, dissolved in water, descends on the board then whoever has the gold medal he remains on the board because of its weight. By repeating this process several times, first, He rubbed it gently and pressing lightly with a sponge in texture, it removes the bulk porous material and ground until all that remains is gold dust "

When I saw López Aicardo work, it was not like 2000 years have passed since Diodorus of Sicily, the Greek historian of 1st century BC, described as how old egipcians extract gold from the bowels of the earth. Aicardo tools, a man in his 50s with a tan and wrinkles of someone used to working under the sun, were so traditional as egipcian from a type of box timber piles, plus a filter for large stones and testimony that we were in the 21st century have been a helmet construction worker who has served a bucket and a shovel. Here at the river Cauca ground a few meters from the old Puente de Occidente, which is bent minute down on its tools and a little trapped by the storm clouds and mountains that form the canyon of the river, was a reminder of the true Indian tradition of honor to their gods through the gold.

None of the gold Colombian Indian tribes settled this part of the valley of the River mid-Cauca. South to the valley as well as Indians have created their beautiful Quimbaya figures by the lost wax process. They cast their figures in beeswax by covering with a layer of clay and put it all in a fire melted wax in the clay block giving the shape vacuum inside ready to pour into the tumbaga, copper and gold alleation as it did today, perhaps take the form of a poporos the famous "inspired by nature. North of the city of Santa Fe de Antioquia was Indian culture that molded Urabá also natural representations, especially animals with tails raised or birds with two heads. However, the first instructors in filigree, art create characters with gold son, Santa Fe de Antioquia were not gold artisans from India, but people Mompox, which curiously gold has not been exploited, but raised at the time the Spaniards stripped of their colonies all the gold they could meet. Over time, the citizens of Santa Fe has learned implicitly many times transmitted from generation to generation as Anibal Ramos said: "I did that for about 18 years. It is as hereditary. My brother told me that was taught by an uncle himself. If one of my Children this talent so I'll teach too. "

Watermark is an ancient art and the Greeks were already practicing in the 5th century JC after working with granulation where tiny gold balls are put in place to form delicate embossed designs.

In Shop Jaime Benitez, one of the traditional last names of Santa Fe watermark, artisan passes a gold bar about 2 ½ inches long in machine with rollers like spaghetti cutter. The gold bullion, one of the most malleable metal in the world, stretches and stretches imaginable at the point where it becomes a thick wire that the artisan then passed through the disks with different jewels callibers until it was a bar of gold is now a small wire as thin as hair. Now begins the real art. With this thread much can be done. Braided example, it gives a beautiful reflection. Benitez, meanwhile, is working on a ring for a Quinceañera. Life for the residents of Santa Fe is marked as a pendulum by their gold jewelry. The newborn receives a gold bracelet, Then comes the First Communion, fifteen years in the case of girls, graduation, wedding. In Santa Fe's ears old women and hands are all represented special days of their lives. The traditional designs reign: the small woven ball "which" is not seen anywhere else, everything we do: the "rosebud", the "small tomatoes, everything that comes from antiquity," says Jaime Benitez.

And work is meticulous. gold beads and tiny gold wire rings are treated, and where two figures touching a weld joined millimeter gold parties. Little by little, minute by minute, a ring is finalized. Four hours of work leave a ring blackened by flame welding. Still ahead of polishing and cleaning. This is not an easy job. As Anibal Ramos said when I asked if he has Never been to teach his children the art watermark: "This is a very thankless job, the craftsman works too hard and never makes enough to live "

After working six hours digging and filtering, Aicardo Lopez received his punishment day before the rain in the afternoon placed a piece of paper with 3 grams of gold dust inside a matchbox El Rey. This was not a bad day for him, he will receive 11,000 pesos (about six dollars) for this quantity. It did not matter to him the next day that the gold would become filigree jewelry hand whose value to the owner will more than double what she paid for it.

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