The production of folk old silver ornaments should go through the processes of melting silver, casting, molding, carving, welding, cleaning, etc.: first, the silver material is melted, and then it is made into bars, sheets, wires and other parts. Most workshops have special charcoal stoves with strong firepower. In addition, oxygen is sent by bellows to make the silver in the crucible melt quickly, and then it is poured into a stone trough and cast into strips, and then processed after cooling. When the craftsmen walking in the square melt the silver, they first put the broken silver in a small crucible, then put a small amount of borax powder on a shelf and an oil lamp under it. After the oil lamp was lit, the craftsman held a copper blowpipe and blew the fire hard until the silver in the crucible melted into liquid. Pour the silver liquid into the iron bath, and it will condense into silver bars in a short time. After the silver bar is completely cooled, the pliers can be pressed into thin sheets or drawn into strips on the anvil, and the silver bar is sandwiched in the middle for later use. There is such a scene in the movie Silver Jewelry.

Making of silver

When a certain number of silver pieces or bars are prepared, the craftsman can further process the silver pieces and bars according to the pattern required by the owner to make them have the basic shape of silver jewelry parts. One method is to draw a pattern on the silver piece with ink, and then cut out the pattern with drills with different shapes, or put the silver piece or silver bar into an iron mold and punch out the concave-convex pattern directly with a hammer to make the pattern of the silver decorative piece slightly rough. Another method is to hammer out the concave and convex surface of the silver piece in the tin male and female mold, and then stick the silver piece on the board with rosin, and knock it with chisels of different sizes according to the texture of the pattern to make a finer silver decorative piece. Silver wires are usually made of thin silver strips, which are thin and symmetrical, but also made and polymorphic, and have special uses. Monofilaments are mostly used as edge lines, while multifilaments are twisted with more than two silver wires. After all the parts are processed, soak them in boric acid water, and then put them on the refractory bricks according to the pattern. Spray flux on the welding part, light the oil lamp, and blow the flame to the welding part with a blowpipe. When the firebrick under the mat turns from black to white, the welding is completed. At this point, after a little trimming with a file, put it in alum water and cook it until it turns white, and then wipe it with a cloth until it shines.