Silversmith - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A silversmith is a person who makes things out of the element silver or creates silverware.^[1] Silversmiths are similar to goldsmiths, who make things out of gold or things similar to gold. Silversmithing means making something out of silver. There have been silversmiths since ancient times.

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↑ "Definition of SILVERSMITH". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2020-04-13.

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Jewellery

Forms

Making

People	Bench jeweler Clockmaker Goldsmith Jewellery designer Lapidarist Silversmith Watchmaker
Processes	Carving Casting centrifugal lost-wax vacuum Enameling Engraving Filigree Kazaziye Metal clay Plating Polishing Repoussé and chasing Soldering Stonesetting Wire sculpture Wire wrapped jewelry
Tools	Draw plate File Hammer Mandrel Pliers

Materials

Precious metals	Gold Palladium Platinum Rhodium Silver
Precious metal alloys	Britannia silver Colored gold Crown gold Electrum Shakudō Shibuichi Sterling silver Argentium Tumbaga
Base metals	Brass Bronze Copper Mokume-gane Nickel silver (alpacca) Pewter Pinchbeck Stainless steel Titanium Tungsten
Mineral gemstones	Agate Amazonite Amethyst Aventurine Beryl (red) Carnelian Chrysoberyl Chrysocolla Diamond Diopside Emerald Fluorite Garnet Howlite Jade Jasper Kyanite Labradorite Lapis lazuli Larimar Malachite Marcasite Moonstone Obsidian Onyx Opal Peridot Prasiolite Quartz (smoky) Ruby Sapphire Sodalite Spinel Sunstone Tanzanite Tiger's eye Topaz Tourmaline Turquoise Variscite Zircon
Organic gemstones	Abalone Amber Ammolite Copal Coral Black Precious Ivory Jet Nacre Operculum Pearl Tortoiseshell
Other natural objects	Bezoar Bog-wood Ebonite (vulcanite) Gutta-percha Hair Shell Spondylus shell Toadstone

Terms

Art jewelry
Carat (mass)
Carat (purity)
Finding
Fineness

Related topics: Body piercing; Fashion; Gemology; Metalworking; Phaleristics; Wearable art