The craft
Filigree is not a stamped pattern.
It is metal drawn until it becomes thread, then coiled, soldered and set by hand. Six hours to reach 0.22 mm. Two or three days for a pair of earrings.
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Draw
The metal passes through the drawplate again and again until it reaches 0.22 mm. That step alone can take six hours.
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Coil
Each turn is wound over the last. The seven-coil ring is called that because it carries exactly seven.
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Solder
The threads are joined with heat at the right points. Too much and the pattern melts. Too little and the piece gives way.
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Set
The stone goes in last. Between drawing and setting, a pair of earrings takes two or three days.
The emerald goes in uncut
Across much of the catalogue the stone is set with the face it came out of the mine with, matrix and veins in plain view. That means two rings of the same model never share the same green, and that the photo on the page is of the piece, not of a type of piece.
A note on what we don't claim
The technical detail on this page describes how filigree is made, not a production promise from KORA: we have no publicly documented supplier. We also avoid naming specific denominations of origin while we cannot back them up. Once the workshop is documented, this section will say more.