Electroforming

Electroforming is a technique used by jewellery makers as well as ceramicists and glass artists.  It allows the manufacture of delicate and/or irregular shapes that  would be difficult to achieve by other means, as well as repetition  pieces (using moulds), which can also be difficult to make. For  jewellery, electroforming means that relatively lightweight and delicate  shapes can still be made rigid and strong, and that fastenings, etc.,  can be attached to difficult or irregular shapes. It also allows  intricate details to be faithfully reproduced (coating a spider's web in  gold to make jewellery, for example).