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Turning the heaviest metal into the lightest excuses to propose, mourn, or show off.
means The craft of working gold into jewelry, ornaments, and objects by melting, hammering, casting, and finishing the metal.
from A plain compound of "gold" and "smith," both deep-rooted Old English words. "Smith" once meant any skilled worker in metal — the same word behind blacksmith and silversmith — and is related to old Germanic terms for striking or beating. So a goldsmith is, quite literally, one who smites gold into shape, the trade-name simply naming its precious raw material.
- Ancient craft
- Worked gold predates writing by thousands of years
- Pure madness
- 24-karat gold is too soft for daily wear
- Hammered thin
- One gram beats into a meter-wide sheet
- Lost wax
- A 6,000-year-old casting trick still used today
- Fire test
- Gold melts at 1,064 degrees Celsius
cellini salt cellar — benvenuto cellini's masterpiece made for francis i of france in 1543, now in vienna
sutton hoo treasure — 7th-century anglo-saxon goldwork hoard discovered in suffolk, england in 1939