Claudia nods, and begins poking around the shop, even as she keeps an eye on the shopkeeper and his apprentices. Even with the language barrier, it isn't too hard to follow along. And then she gets caught up in the rhythm of the work, the feel of the metal, heating and annealing, hardening and softening, bending and getting it set into shape. The bracelet she forms is more of a cuff, an organic form reminiscent of twining vines or rippling water, an s-curve bent around so that it almost seems to meet yet can adjust to fit.
The sample takes a good hour just to rough out, but by then, the owner is content to let her keep working and see just what techniques she brought to bear. Claudia only wished she had more materials, or could layer and pin for color changes. It wasn't the alloy she was used to working, either, but finally, she heated and quenched the metal a final time, hardening it to the finished form and presented it to both men.
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Date: 2016-04-04 11:06 pm (UTC)From:The sample takes a good hour just to rough out, but by then, the owner is content to let her keep working and see just what techniques she brought to bear. Claudia only wished she had more materials, or could layer and pin for color changes. It wasn't the alloy she was used to working, either, but finally, she heated and quenched the metal a final time, hardening it to the finished form and presented it to both men.