Intergration And Innovation Of Filigree Craftsmanship&Modern Jewelry Design

As traditional royal craftsmanship of China,"Filigree Inlaid Metal Art" has been regardedas one of the eight crafts in Beijing with distinctive ethnic characteristics. Its technology of usinggolden and silver materials is exquisite, delicate and fabulous, which has been highly praised bypeople. However, due to complicated and conservative processes of such treasure bearingthousands of years’ history in China, it has become harder and harder for Filigree Inlaid MetalArt to keep pace with the current step of modern design fashion; besides, a great number of theolder artists had been forced to give up this industry when facing the pressure of life, whichfinally caused the awkward situation of the Filigree craftsmanship. In the age of pursuingindividual freedom and under the background of contemporary art, modern jewelry has no longerfollowed the tradition of valuing the beauty in preciously&complicate-designed jewelries likeancient China; but it has integrated the modern design style featured by pureness, simplicity andthree dimension, which focuses on the form combining a variety of materials and satisfies theaesthetic standard of modern people. Nonetheless, it couldn’t go far without the inheritance ofhistory; despite its difference, it is of great importance for modern jewelry design to inherit andcarry forward the fine tradition. This paper focuses on the integration&innovation of the twodesign features with respect to various problems appeared when the traditional craftsmanship of"Filigree Inlaid Metal Art" had been enormously affected by modern jewelry design. In thispaper, it firstly makes studies on the features of "Filigree Inlaid Metal Art" and the style ofmodern jewelry design; then it tries to integrate the two design features, analyses the existingproblems and seeks for some new design approaches. It is expected that the old craftsmanship of"Filigree" will burst out its brilliance in current jewelry design once again, and to make thejewelry design more diversified with richer cultural heritage.