Capitolo 61
in their search, the diamonds that continually reflect them when them
shine on them, while making himself/herself/itself with this the most evident."
The first diamond-cutter is frequently mentioned as Luigi de
De of Berquem Bruges, in 1476. But Laborde finds the first file of
the art to cut this gem: there was in Paris a diamond-cutter
Called Herman, in 1407. The cutters of diamond in Paris were completely
numerous in that year, and he/she lived in a special district known as "her
Courarie, where he/she resides the workers in diamonds and the other stones."
Rings of finger almost deserve a history to them, for them
forms and styles are legion. Rings were made of glass in often the
eleventh century. Theophilus tells a graph and interesting
way as them you/they were built. He recommends the use of a bar
of iron, often as the finger of one, a wood handle rises up, "as a
lance is joined in its spite." A great piece should be also us
of wood, to the correct hand of the worker "the bigness of an arm,
dug in the earth, and reaching the top of the window." On
the left of the oven a small clay trench will be offered.
"Then, the glass that you/he/she is cooked", one is admonished for taking the small ones
you stretch in the wood handle, you bathe him/it in the fused glass and choice
on a small portion and him "it stings in the wood that the glass
you/he/she can be perforated through, and it immediately heats him/it in the flame, and
strike twice it on the wood that the glass can be dilated, and
with rapidity you turn Your hand with the same iron; " when the
ring is formed so, quickly be throw in the trench.
Theophilus adds, "If you desire to vary Your rings with the other colours...
takes... glass of another colour, surrounding the glass of the ring
with him in the way of a thread... You can put also on the
glass of ring of some kind as a gem and it heats him/it in the fire that
you/he/she can stick." One can almost see these rings from this accurate
description of their product.
The old Ring of Crowning, "the faith of England" it was a gold
you encircle with an alone balas excellent ruby; the pious tradition had him