Mokume Gane and classical jewellery

Welcome to the website of our small workshop where we hand-craft classical and Mokume Gane jewellery. Currently we do not have the resources to translate the entire site but we speak English. Please feel free to send us email, give us a call or visit our studio directly. We are always pleased to hear from you!

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 a lot of 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.

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