Comments on: What is cameo made of? http://www.jianfeichanpin.info/pins-brooches/what-is-cameo-made-of Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:35:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Opal M http://www.jianfeichanpin.info/pins-brooches/what-is-cameo-made-of#comment-2283 Opal M Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:11:59 +0000 http://www.jianfeichanpin.info/pins-brooches/what-is-cameo-made-of#comment-2283 how you carve something .<br><b>References : </b><br> how you carve something

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]]> By: seashell727 http://www.jianfeichanpin.info/pins-brooches/what-is-cameo-made-of#comment-2282 seashell727 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:54:59 +0000 http://www.jianfeichanpin.info/pins-brooches/what-is-cameo-made-of#comment-2282 Cameo- a method of carving, or an item of jewelery or vessel made in this manner. It features a raised (positive) relief image; contrast with intaglio, which has a negative image. There are three main materials which are used for cameo carving: shell, agate (this is called a hardstone cameo), and glass. Cameos can be produced by setting a carved relief, such as a portrait, onto a background of a contrasting colour. This is called an assembled cameo. Alternately, a cameo can be carved directly out of a material with integral layers or banding, such as (banded) agate or layered glass, where different layers have different colours. Sometimes dyes are used to enhance these colours.<br><b>References : </b><br>Wikipedia Cameo- a method of carving, or an item of jewelery or vessel made in this manner. It features a raised (positive) relief image; contrast with intaglio, which has a negative image. There are three main materials which are used for cameo carving: shell, agate (this is called a hardstone cameo), and glass.
Cameos can be produced by setting a carved relief, such as a portrait, onto a background of a contrasting colour. This is called an assembled cameo. Alternately, a cameo can be carved directly out of a material with integral layers or banding, such as (banded) agate or layered glass, where different layers have different colours.
Sometimes dyes are used to enhance these colours.
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