Ways to Produce Inlaying Effect

As a kind of very ancient jewelry making technique, inlaying has the important status in the history of Chinese art and crafts．The modern jewelry making techniques not only inherits the traditional inlaying, but also develops many ways to produce the inlaying effect． The ways to produce the inlaying effect are summerized mainly from the aspect of the jewelry making process．The ways are as follows：the traditional way, the way to fill with gold or silver amalgam, the way to fill with silver mud, the way to fill with solder, the way to solder and press, the way to embed and solder and the way to mill and embed, which enrich the traditional inlaying and increase the artistic charm．