Mokume Gane and classical jewellery

On this website you can find a selection of our hand-crafted classical and Mokume Gane jewellery. In case you would like to have additional information please send us an email, give us a call or visit our studio.

What is the forging technique Mokume Gane?

Mokume Gane stems from the ancient Japan and refers to metal with an organic texture resembling wood grain. The first step in manufacturing Mokume Gane is to weld several layers of different metals and alloys. We make use of a variety of different metals and alloys. On the one hand we use high-value metals such as yellow gold, rose gold and palladium, on the other hand we also work in silver an Shakudo. (Shakudo is a Japanese alloy consisting of cupper and 6% gold which oxidises black in air.) We produce these blanks for our Mokume Gane jewellery ourselves allowing us to manufacture Mokume Gaen jewellery according to your indivdual preferences.

In the following we apply several techniques such as forging, etching and twisting the metal to create a variety of different patterns inside and on the surface of the jewellery. Mokume Gane offers thus rich possibilities to process combinations of different metals with various techniques.

If you click on the menu “Mokume Gane technique” we show step for step how we manufacture a pair of Mokume Gane wedding rings. A characteristic feature of well-manufactured Mokume Gane rings is a continuous pattern.

Goldsmithy Gert Schwaderlapp
Kirchplatz 18
46459 Rees am Niederrhein - Germany
Tel.: +49 / (0)2851 / 2546