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I studied jewelry fabrication at the Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts in San Francisco. I learned mokume gane though self-teaching and enjoy both the technical and artistic sides of this complex metal patterning technique.
Each piece of mokume is as unique as your fingerprint. Though a mokume pattern can be closely duplicated, it is impossible to duplicate the pattern exactly. There are always slight variations is the details of the patterns.
Mokume gane allows for a great deal of creativity and requires a high skill level to bring out the best of this technique. There is a fine line between failure and success due to the complications that arise from working with two or more metals. Variations metal combinations, number of layers and patterning techniques are carefully planned out to achieve the desired final pattern.
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