Application Of Metal Inlaying Craft In Modern Jewelry Design

With the highly development of socio-cultural and scientific technology, It has tremendous changed the lifestyle of modern people. The live rhythm and pop elements constantly change quickly. As the information era comes, the jewelry industry is undergoing tremendous changes either. Mechanical and semi-mechanized production methods in use in jewelry making to improve the traditional jewelry making techniques, to achieve the mass production of jewelry, especially the application of the rapid prototyping technology in the jewelry industry has greatly enhanced the production efficiently. This high efficiency and high-speed mass production methods gave a more fast, short and easy way to meet people's demand for jewelry.However, with the intervention of this fast rhythm and efficient production, it also reveals many hidden problems in modern jewelry industry of China. First of all, it's the backward design concept. The domestic jewelry productions are always similar to the same due to the copy Western design style blindly and are lack to its own design spirits. The next is the limitation in getting behind on craftsmanship and utilization of jewelry design material so that it makes a more singularity and simpleness productions. A wide range of modern society has made people emphasis on modern humanity, nature unique and innovation more directly. Therefore, the actuality of jewelry design industry in China has no longer satisfied this demand. The best way to help China's modern jewelry design industry to get out this outdated and backward situation, to find the line with the modern design of the Chinese jewelry is that find out the inspiration form cultural accumulation in thousands of years of history in China.It is a important approach to explore the new idea form the traditional culture and traditional arts and give a strong combination with the essence of traditional culture so that the China jewelry design industry can explore to its ethnic characteristics and comparable to the Western modern jewelry design industry. China's traditional craft originated metal inlaying craft in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, there are already 2000 years of history, which flourished in the late Chunqiu era to the Zhanguo Period,metal inlaying craft is backed by a comprehensive development. Its techniques and decorative forms of technology reach to the peak, all fields of life in people is widely popular. One of the main process is with the gold and silver as a decorative material. metal inlaying craft is not only reflects the profound Chinese culture and heritage, but also a very sophisticated metal processing technology. However, with the progress of social and scientific technic development, accompanied by the many, many more exquisite technique, such as metal inlaying craft, are lost and loss of traditional skills. For this reason, the author traces the history of metal inlaying craft process evolution, discuss its process technology, the arts features analysis and summary. Comparing the metal inlaying craft with other similar technics and exploring the theoretical foundation and concrete methods in combination of metal inlaying craft and modern gold jewelry. Through experiments of the traditional craft and modern metal inlaying craft, the author revealed the combination of advantages to stimulate the inherent potential of traditional crafts, in order to design a rich and modern jewelry with Chinese characteristics. And it will provide a reference to attract China's jewelry industry to the concern of the traditional crafts and heritage.Paper is divided into six parts. The first part, It gave a general depiction on the purpose and significance about making traditional gold jewelry into modern technology. The second part, author carried out the defination of metal inlaying craft, and discuss the traditional metal inlaying craft process, process characteristics and the development process. Compare it with the other similar process. The third part mainly studies the art features of the metal inlaying craft process. The fourth part, the author summed up the ills of modern jewelry design and resolution of the direction through analysis and comparison of Chinese and Western contemporary jewelry design development and the status quo. And to explore the traditional metal Inlaying Craft process and the relationship between the modern and traditional technique applied to modern jewelry design advantages specific ways and methods. The fifth part is also the most important part of this paper, the author used "Five Elements" element to combined with modern design concept design sets the metal inlaying craft works, and through reproduction of the traditional metal inlaying craft process in order to find out a specific methods to use metal inlaying craft into the modern jewelry produce process. The author according to own understanding to combined modern gold jewelry design with metal inlaying craft, specifically from the materials, technology, ideas and decorative forms, and several other aspects of metal inlaying craft jewelry production, and thus explore the traditional craft and modern jewelry design gold fusion ways and means, and summarize a number of production skills and personal experience. At the last part, the author specifically discusses a traditional technique used in the metal inlaying craft and production of modern jewelry design made during the breakthrough.In this paper, author explored the culture connotation and art characteristics from the dust of history by an detailed illumination to discover the inner potential on metal inlaying craft.Its application in modern jewelry designs and find out the localization of the modern jewelry styles in the essence of metal inlaying craft is very significative.