METHOD FOR WIRE WRAPPING GEMSTONES Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC A44C27/00 A44C17/02 

FIELD: jewelry.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to wire wrapping gemstones. Method for wire wrapping gemstones involves the following: hook is used to form a bowl-shaped wire frame fot the gemstone, whein its side parts and its face are partially wrapped and have a delicate weaving around them, then the stone is placed into the formed frame. Method uses a single uncut piece of wire to form the frame; row consisting of chain stitches is woven, when the required length is achieved, the row is locked to form a circle, thus completing the first row of the woven frame for the stone. Then, following the above procedure, the rest of the rows are woven along the circumference of the stone, the number of the rows being not more than five; a bowl-shaped frame is formed as a result, one end of the wire is on one side of it and the other end of the working wire is on the other side. Then the bowl-shaped frame is turned inside out and after that the gemstone is place inside the frame. Then the wire frame is tightly wrapped around the bottom and side parts of the gemstone, partially covering the face side of the gemstone, remaining end of the wire is cut off, then the cut end of the wire is pulled through the adjacent loop onto the reverse side, then it is used to form the delicate weaving, pulling another loop through the first loop using the hook. All the loops of the second or third row are lifted, starting from the face side the gemstone, bending the loops by 90 degrees, so that they are parallel to the surface, onto where the stone will be placed. Weaving to the center of the gemstone is performed at the reverse side of the gemstone by pulling the end of the wire in an opposite direction, catching the end loop of the first row and pulling it in the downward direction, then it is repeated for the same end of the wire, but from left to right and at the end of the wire a knot is made.

EFFECT: simplified and faster process of weaving without seams and joints, as well as possibility to remove the wrapped stone.

1 cl, 9 dwg