Vine-loop-inlaid Chased Silver Bracelet

This bracelet was crafted by chasing, a time-honored metalworking technique of decorating by handwork the surface of a malleable metal by indenting it and so raising the design to create a relief pattern, using of a great number of differently shaped tracing tools, tracers, and a chasing hammer.
The making of this bracelet involves several steps. First, cut out a sheet of thin silver that is large enough to cover the vine loop, put it on chaser’s pitch, create lines with a liner and patterns by hammering the end of tracers while the other end pushing the silver; weld the two shorter ends of the silver sheet then, and shape a vine into a loop by slow baking; and finally inlay the vine loop into the silver cylinder and refine it until the bracelet is done.