Sweden · Silversmithing; Jewellery; Swedish heritage
Svensk Silverfiligran — Skandinavisk Tradition
The Swedish silver filigree tradition — the production of the delicate open-work silver wire constructions that are the defining luxury jewelry of Scandinavian tradition, closely related to the Norwegian Sølje filigree but with a specifically Swedish design vocabulary. The Swedish filigranskonstnär reads the correct silver wire temper through the same rotation-and-resistance assessment as Schoonhoven (CRAFT-1384) but calibrated to the Swedish silver standard (830 silver — similar to Norwegian and Danish standards, slightly lower than Dutch 835).
Risk level: Endangered · Not listed; Swedish filigree on the Swedish national heritage inventory
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