Although it sounds simple–you just create a template from a flat sheet of gold and then hammer it untill the gold bends and folds to fit your design–it is one of the most amazing techniques to come along in the 5,000 years of goldsmithing. Creating gold jewelry that needs no findings–those little catches and clutches that snap at your fingernails–is just one of the delights of this work.
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One mark of a jewelry pioneer is the introduction of a technique into our jewelry vocabulary. Who ever heard of anticlastic raising before Michael Good adapted this labor-intensive technique and created a line of remarkable gold jewelry? 
Through more than 20 years of design and technical innovation, Good has constantly expanded his line, and his generous teaching of the techique has spawned a sub-industry of jewelers.
