30 Dec ART 718-Usable metaloplasty- Copper dishes and cutlery.

Metaloplasty is a field describing the creation of decorations and artistic objects using metal. Her products can be everyday items such as lamps, candlesticks, ashtrays, signs and fences. Metaloplastic products will also include traditional decorations, i.e. sculptures, bas -reliefs and of course jewelry. Interestingly, some definitions consider metaloplasty to be the art of processing cold metals, which we can also call artistic locksmith. However, in a broader concept of metaloplasty, it includes hot metal treatment, including jewelry, artistic blacksmithing and many other factions known for hundreds of years. These include forging, bending, cutting, straightening, extrusion, patting, sawing, drilling, soldering, blacksmithing, locksmith and casting.

Metaloplasty is a term that we mainly use today. However, techniques that we can include metaloplasty are developed from prehistory. The first decorations made with such techniques include bracelets, bronze buckles and pins, knives and sacred vessels. An important step was to invent the process of melting iron and its subsequent processing.
In ancient times, cold forging was popular as well as foundation. The Greeks knew welding, engraving and combining metals with decorative stones. In ancient Rome, mirrors, cups and fragments of wardrobe made of metals deserved special attention. In ancient Egypt, bronze was used for metaloplasty, but also copper, gold and silver. Copper products were processed with hammers and characterized the Etruscan art. In the Middle Ages, techniques that came from Asia to Europe, for example, were fashionable with precious metals.