Artisans gold filigree of Columbia Artists
"In the early stages of the skilled worker receives the stone that was reduced to dust, .. it rubs on a range inclined board pour water on it all the time, then the land issue in it, dissolved in water, down the board while he who has gold in it remains on the board because of its weight. Repeating this a few times, first rubs gently and pressing lightly with a sponge-textured loose it removes the porous material and ground until all else is gold dust pure "
When I saw López Aicardo work, it was not like 2000 years have passed since the Diodoro Sicily, the Greek historian of 1st century BC, described it 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 like the traditional egipcian: a type of box wooden track, over a strainer to large stones and the evidence we were in the 21st century have been a construction worker helmet who served as a bucket and shovel. There, the river Cauca few meters from the old Puente de Occidente, minute figure bent over the tools and a little trapped by the storm clouds and the mountains that form the canyon of the river, was a reminder of the true Indian tradition of making tribute to their gods through gold.
Of all the tribes of India or any Columbian settled this part of the valley in mid-river Cauca. Southward the same valley that the Indians have created their beautiful Quimbaya figures by the lost wax process. They cast their wax figures covering it with a layer of clay and put it all in a fire melted wax out of the block of clay, leaving the empty form on the inside willing to pay tumbaga in a alleation copper and gold, as it is today, perhaps in the form of one of the famous "poporos inspiration in nature. North of the city of Santa Fe de Antioquia was Indian culture that molded Urabá also shows natural animal especially with tails or two heads in relief of birds. However, the first instructors filigree, the art of creating characters in gold thread, Santa Fe Antioquia were not gold artisans in India, but the people of Mompox, where gold curiously was not used, but collected at the time the Spaniards stripped of their colonies all the gold in they could gather. Over time the citizens of Santa Fe learned implicitly many times passed down from generation to generation as Anibal Ramos said: "I did this for about 18 years. This is as hereditary. My brother taught me which was taught by an uncle himself. If any of my children has this talent so I'll teach him too. "
Watermark is an ancient art and the Greeks were already practicing in the fifth century BC, after working with the granules or tiny gold balls are put in place to form a delicate embossed designs.
A store Jaime Benitez, one of traditional names of Santa Fe last watermark, an architect spends a gold bar of 2 ½ inches long through a machine with rollers similar to a cutter spaghetti. Gold bullion, one of the most malleable metal in the world, unimaginable stretches and stretches to the point where it becomes a thick wire that the craftsman then passes through the disks with different jewels callibers up what was a small gold bar is now a wire as thin as hair. Now begins the real art. With this over many things can be done. Braided example, it provides a nice relief. Benitez, In Meanwhile, working on a ring and a "Quinceañera". Life for the residents of Santa Fe is marked as a pendulum by their gold jewelry. The newborn receives a gold bracelet, comes next First Communion, fifteen years for girls, graduation, wedding. In the ears of old women of Santa Fe and hands are represented all special days of their lives. The reign of the traditional motifs: the "small woven ball," which "is not seen anywhere else, all that we do: the "little rose", the small "tomatoes, everything that comes from antiquity," said Jaime Benitez.
And work is meticulous. The gold grains and tiny gold wire rings are handled, and where two figures are touching a weld millimeter or joined parts. Little by little, minute by minute, a ring receives its final form. Four hours after a leave of a ring blackened by the welding torch. Still ahead is the polishing and cleaning. This is not an easy job. As Anibal Ramos said when I asked if he always summer to teach kids the art filigree "This is a very thankless job, the craftsman working too hard and never does this to live "
After working six hours of digging and screening, Lopez got his revenge Aicardo day before the rain in the afternoon placed a piece of paper with 3 grams of gold dust in a matchbox El Rey. It was not a bad day for him it will get 11,000 pesos (about six dollars) for this quantity. It does not matter to him that the next day that the gold would become a jewel hand filigree whose value to the owner will be more than double what she paid for it.
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