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A head band worked through repoussage to imitate braided silver shows Spratling using a single technique to do the work of construction: rather than weaving actual strands, the braided look is raised from the metal itself. The illusion is the design.
Repoussage, raising relief from the back of the sheet, was among the techniques Spratling's silversmiths practiced and named (Morrill, p. 15). The head band belongs to the First Design Period (1931-1946), when his vocabulary of worked-surface effects was being established.
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