The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1885-11-18
ABOUT BROOCHES,
Partisan Information Regarding Ths
Styles and Manufacture.


styles and Manufacture.
It is of smaller trinkets-more espe.
cially brooches-that shall treat now.
To begin with, there are those stock
forms, which, In spite of the great in
flux of novelties. hold their own in a
most pertinacious fashion. Foremost
among these is the everlasting
horseshoe. Some brooches of this
shape are set with very large
brilliants which take up the
whole width; the little intervals in the
corners on the outer line being filed
W tn small diamonds. which form tiny
points set little without the edge.
Pearls and colored stones are treated
in the same way. Others are composed
of two rows of stones. One, the outer
one, consists OF rubies, sapphires and
turquoises-polished, not cut-into the
shape of grains of wheat a tiny dia-
mond point between each; the inner of
the row of small d Almonds, The whole
set in solid gold horseshoe with
pin attached. Horse-shoes made of
single rows of stones are used in trios
u
/ nk set with diamonds. They
are also-especially the lat
ter kind-Strung on nail.
the pin being placed at the back of. the
latter which may be in plain gold with
a square. gold head, or in gold with
head of blush steel. When tn is the
case the horseshoe is at most an inch
long. A mere complicated design con-
SITS of diamond horseshoe with the
points turned upward, behind which.
set up vertically. is a gold nail, and on
each sid of the horseshoe three gold
( stakes with crossbars stand for the hur-
( die of the French steeplechase.
Less expensive brooches are made n
+ this form entirely of gold, the stab rs
and nail being in polished metal, and
Z the horseshoe in hammered gold.
/ Single horseshoe brooches are also
made of hammered gold. and enlivened
! by the addition of small d amond set
carelessly on one side.
Another simple form has taken lately.
namely. the CIRCULAR ring; these
/ brooches are composed in the same way
as the horseshoe, that is TO say, of sin
gle rows of brill ants or pearls divided
| by small diamonds, of brilliants alter
mating with sapphires. or of double
rows of stones diamonds and ru-
bies. or diamonds and sapphires.
They are set in solid gold. and the
small diamonds outside may or may not
make little points on the outer circle,
The round brooch for the rest is no
novelty; hoops or rings of gems, be ng
merely modern reyivals of forms in
great favor during the last century.
The plain and frosted gold roses are
almost circular; and coins, discs. plates,
and other circular forms, have been
worn for a long time. Various devices
! are inclosed in circular hoops of metal.
Thus, the salamander; it is generally
made IN yellow or greenish gold, aad
the tail of the creature lies within the
ring and the body across. The rose of
! England, also Enclosed in a gold g.
serves as a brooch, and others are made
with spray of roses entwined within.
An eccentr.city in circular brooches
consists of hoop of gold, within which
are set three little rabbits in clustered
diamonds running after each other on
the inner side.
! Crescents are as much in favor as
ever. and they often have The outer ! ne
cut up by little diamond points which
have very good effect and give them
a more radiant appearance. The ma
jority are composed of diamonds
only, but others have a row of sap
phires, cat's-eyes or pearls on the inner
side. When used for brooches the
crescent is set obliquely and turned up
ward with the two points to the right;
il case of a pin for the hair it is put as
vertically aS possible, as the man in the
moon appears in the sky just after sum
set.
Flights of birds are in great favor as
brooches. Here are flights of pigeons
and swallows made of clustered dia-
monds, arranged in perspective-the
foremost being the smallest, and then
growing larger; the head of one bird
Just touches the tail feathers of the one
preceding it. In this case, and in that
of fight of five wild geese (aiso made
OF clustered almonds set in silyer),
one design does for all the birds. But
for otherS-fights of storks and wild
geese-each bird is seen in a different
attitude, and the effect of perspective is
only obtained by size. Some OF
these brooches in pale gold are very
artistic, the plain metal being more
easy to man ipulate Owls do not fly
in 1iocks. but a trio of owls make q
good design for a brooch.-PdrtS COR.
| Manu- dcttITIRQ Je3Ceker.