 | Walter Hamilton (M.R.A.S.) - 1825 - Liczba stron: 474
...FiLLAGREE,or Filagrotie (from filum, thread, and granum, grain.) In the Arts, a kind of enrichment on gold and silver, wrought delicately in the manner of little threads or grains, or both intermixed. FIMBRI.C. In Botany, &c., fringes. FIMBRIATCS. In Botany, &r.., fringed. FINAL CAUSE.... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1831 - Liczba stron: 650
...and may sustain a comparison with the best lyric productions. FILLAGREF. WORK; a kind of ornamental work in gold or silver, wrought delicately, in the...of little threads or grains, or of both intermixed. In Sumatra, manufactures of this kind are carried to very great perfection, though the tools made use... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - Liczba stron: 630
...and rnav sustain a comparison with the best lyric productions. FILLAGREE WORK; a kind of ornamental work in gold or silver, wrought delicately, in the...of little threads or grains, or of both intermixed. In Sumatra, manufactures of this kind arc carried to very great perfection, though the tools made use... | |
 | John Walker, Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1836 - Liczba stron: 810
...because he Ales the writs on which he makes ,1 105: ». / j generally in A kind of enrichment, gold and silver, wrought delicately in the manner of little threads or grains, or both intermixed. The former is the original word, but U now obsolete. Fil'-i-greed, a. Ornamented with... | |
 | 1839 - Liczba stron: 580
...the sand, which sand is worked over again for other castings. KILLAGREE WORK— A kind of ornamental work in gold or silver, wrought delicately, in the...of little threads or grains, or of both intermixed. In Sumatra manufac:ures of this kind are carried to very great perfection, though the tools made use... | |
 | 1844 - Liczba stron: 636
...and may sustain a comparison with the best lyric productions. T'ni VI.IM U mri, ; akuidof ornamental work in gold or silver, wrought delicately, in the...of little threads or grains, or of both intermixed. In Sumatra, manufactures of this kind are carried to very great perfection, though the tools made use... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - Liczba stron: 886
...and may sustain a comparison with the best lyric productions. FILLAGREE WORK ; a kind of ornamental work in gold or silver, wrought delicately, in the...of little threads or grains, or of both intermixed. In Sumatra, manufactures of this kind are carried to very great perfection, though the tools made use... | |
 | W. M. Buchanan - 1846 - Liczba stron: 768
...a thread, and FIL'AGRANE, / granum, grain. A term in the arts for a sort of enrichment on gold and silver, wrought delicately in the manner of little threads or grains, or both intermixed. The tillagree-work of Sumatra has been most esteemed, but it has of late been cheaply... | |
 | Thomas Antisell - 1852 - Liczba stron: 728
...file-cutting machines producing unexceptionable tools. FILLIGREE WORK. This work is a kind of enrichment on gold or silver, wrought delicately in the manner of little threads or grains, or both intermixed. In this kind of work, fine gold and silver wire arc often curled in a serpentine form... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1855 - Liczba stron: 434
...FIL1C IFORM, a. Fern-shaped. FIL'IGREE, я. [See FILIOBAM, the original word.] A kind of enrichment on gold or silver, wrought delicately in the manner of little threads or grains, or of both intermixed. FIL'IGREE, a. Relating to work in filigree. FIL'IGREED, a. Ornamented with filigree. Formerly spelled... | |
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Sumatra, manufactures of this kind are carried to very great perfection, though the tools made use of are very coarse and clumsy. The workmen melt the gold in a crucible of their own forming, and, instead of bellows, they blow with their mouths through... 
