100 LAC EARRING PAIR Jewel Bollywood GIFT wholesale LOT Start Price USD 299.00 Current Price USD 299.00 Time Left 10 days 2 hours 29 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, September 21, 2008 End Time Monday, January 19, 2009 Location MUMBAI See more about '100 LAC EARRING PAIR Jewel Bollywood GIFT wholesale LOT' Description india.fashions Store  WHOLESALE LOT of 100 Beaded LAC  EARRINGS BEAUTIFUL  colors and designs , different styles and sizes  HANDCRAFTED , ONE of a kind Stages of Making Lac Jewellery This type of jewellery is normally referred to as ‘ Lac Jewellery’ but in fact it is really ‘Lac Filled Jewellery’, as lac or wax is filled in the hollow silver foil piece to give it strength. The stages of making of this type of jewellery are explained below. 1. Designs/Dies The design of the jewellery is first drawn and given to the die maker.  A solid brass metal die is made by etching out the design on top of the die.  A separate die is made for the front and one for the reverse of the jewellery piece.   2. Imprinting/Stamping A thin piece of silver foil is placed over the metal die , the silver foil is gently hammered over the die using a rubber headed mallet to transfer the design of the die to the silver foil and is called imprinting.  The same is done with the reverse side die.   Then two pieces of imprinted silver foil are fitted together to form a delicate hollow silver shell. 3. Enamelling The basic enamel colour is painted on the whole shell.  It is then fired in a tiny cylindered kiln for the enamel to set permanently.  There are mainly 9 colours of enamel used.  These are white, golden, pink, blue parrot green, red, bottle green, turquoise, orange and black.  Shades of these colours are also made.  The shell is delicate at this stage. 4. Lac (Wax) Filling To protect and help in filling the silver shell with lac it is covered with clay mud.  When the clay mud dries it is placed over a hot plate/sand.  The clay gets heated and then lac (wax) in the form of needle straws (see picture – 5 the needle straws are clearly seen) are slowly inserted into the hollow silver shell which is protected by the clay mud.  Once filled the silver shell gets strength.  Though it looks delicate it is strong enough to be used as jewelry    5.Cleaning The protective clay mud is removed and the whole piece is washed and cleaned using soap with a brush until the pieces gives a lustrous shine. 6. Gold Polishing Each cleaned/shining piece is then gold polished at places where the base enamel is not there. These are usually the design outlines/borders.   7. Finishing The final finishing is done by touching up where the gold polish/enamel is distorted. 8. Rhinestones and Bead Application Rhinestones are pressed into the silver foil and set in the wax at the required places as per the designs.  The final work involves attaching beads and findings to complete the jewellery.  CHECK OUT OTHER necklace and EARRINGS TOO IN MY STORE   We ship Through standard post  within 24-48 hours of receiving payments.We ship Monday - Saturday INTERNATIONAL Shipping time 7-10 DAYS WE SHIP WORLDWIDE. WWW.ETHNICINDIAIMPEX.NET   CLICK LINK - Visit My eBay Shop: BOLLYWOOD STYLES Place a Bid!