Colors and Color Settings in Latvian Jewelry from 2011 to 2015

Material Sciences. Textile and Clothing Technology 2016
Inita Rudzīte, Silvija Kukle

In the framework of this paper by method of field research the use of colours in jewellery from 2011 until 2015 is researched. In 2014and 2015 a database, where photos of jewellery, as well as information on jewellery and authors of jewellery is stored, which can be used in the Internet, was created. In the database information is stored in six basic groups: author, figures, and data on jewelry, artistically aesthetic appearance, materials used, and techniques. In the system altogether by 22 November 2016 763 photographs of jewellery, made by 116 authors of jewellery were stored. In the basic group “Artistically aesthetic appearance”, information is subdivided into subgroups – subject, composition, colour and volume. In the framework of this paper author analyses data that are accumulated from 2011 until 2015 in the database of jewellery in the subgroup “colour”. In the period from 2011 to 2015 in total 20 types of colors 480 times were registered. In this period, the colours that are most frequently used in jewellery are: silver – marked in 110 instances, white – 46, blue – 45, black – 43 and red color in 37 instances. In the making of jewellery also various brown tones are used. They are present because Latvian jewellery authors favour natural materials such as wood, seed, shells, moss. From statistical aspect in Latvian jewellery, achromatic colour tones such as grey, black and white tones are dominant. Among the chromatic colours, blue and red are the most popular. If colors in Latvian jewellery are studied not from the point of view of frequency of their usage, but from point of view of diversity of settings of chromatic colours, we can draw a conclusion that the authors are using colour triads in jewellery compositions – such as blue together with yellow and red, as well as green together with orange and violet. However, more frequently, only two colours from theses colour settings are used together. In the same way separately in jeweller, settings of cold colours or warm colours are used.

Keywords
jewelry, colours, databases, colour settings, authors
DOI
10.7250/mstct.2016.002

Rudzīte, I., Kukle, S. Colors and Color Settings in Latvian Jewelry from 2011 to 2015. Material Sciences. Textile and Clothing Technology, 2016, Vol.6, pp.12-17. ISSN 1691-3132. e-ISSN 2255-8888. Available from: doi:10.7250/mstct.2016.002

Publication language
Latvian (lv)