Sakura flower buds and leaf

Only flower buds remain on our sakura trees at this time. As the composition of the flower buds with a leaf is a nice picture, hence we changed the sakura flower buds and a leaf into their silver sculptures.

Coffea stems and leaves

Coffee is a popular brewed beverage, however, most people had not seen coffea stems and leaves. It is valuable to show their shapes, therefore, coffea stems and leaves were changed into their beautiful silver sculptures at our lab.

Ginkgo leaf with a long petiole

Different ginkgo leaves with different length of their petiole. As shown in the following pictures, a long-petiole ginkgo-leaf was transferred to a beautiful silver-leaf.

Olena-silver Maple

Compare to the pure-silver maple-leaf made before July, our maple leaves are made of olena-silver after July. In addition to tarnish-free, as indicated in the following picture, our olena-silver maple-leaf has also an attractive appearance.

 

Three-dimensional leaves

Many leaves are not flat, especially when we selected a twig with two or more leaves to make silver-leaves. As shown in the following picture, it is hard to put the silver-leaves in a picture frame. A glass-bulb is better to demonstrate the beauty of the three-dimensional leaves.

Olenasilver Ginkgo

In addition to eliminate the silver tarnish, Olenasilver (silver and the other noble metals) also made the silver-leaves had a better appearance. As indicated in the following picture, Olenasilver produces an attractive silver ginkgo leaf.

 

Hershey Ginkgo

In addition to Taiwan, ginkgo leaves from Hershey Pa., U.S.A. were also transformed into silver-leaves. Typical silver leaf was shown in the following pictures.

 

Damaged leaves

Unfortunately, valuable leaves sometime have dried edges, bug holes, and/or destroyed part. To keep the valuable memory, as indicated in the following two pictures, our silver-leaf technology can recover their shapes.

Following pictures indicated that though a leaf was damaged seriously, its shape was still recovered.

 

 

 

Only silver, palladium, and gold

For a nice ever-memory, our silver leaf made of only silver, palladium, and gold. To enhance the performance, gold prill was mounted on the silver-leaf vein. As shown in the following picture, around 0.1 gram of gold prill was mounted on a ginkgo leaf.

 

Silver leaves

It is impossible to find two leaves have same shape in the world. Accordingly, our silver leaves are unique. As indicated in the following picture, these four silver leaves are unique in shape and size.

 

A Memorial Silver Leaf

In addition to the original picture, the creative time and place of our silver-leaf were also stick on a framed silver leaf. As predicted in the following picture, it is a natural and unique art. Moreover, it is also a memorial silver leaf.

Beautiful Maples in Taiwan

It is always hot in Taiwan, however, maple leaves still change color even on the level ground. As indicated in the following pictures, beautiful maple leaves changed color in Taoyuan, Taiwan this January. We kept their beautiful shapes by Olena-silver.

 

Canada Sugar Maple

Last week I found a Canada Sugar Maple in Taipei. It was only around 30 cm high, hence the obtained leaves not only small but also faded. As indicated in the following pictures, we still preserved its shape by our silver-leaf process. We love Canada.

                                                   Canada Sugar Maple.

 

 

 

Herbaceous Leaflet

Although it is easy to keep the shape for a lignified leaf, it is not easy for a herbaceous leaf. With the technology our olenasilver, it is easy to keep a herbaceous leaf even a leaflet. Attached figures indicated that even a leaflet of Abutilon Indicum with width only 2.2 cm was changed to a silver-leaf. We can keep the shape of the herbaceous leaflet for ever.

A leaflet of Abutilon Indicum.

Beautiful and Commemorative Leaves

Beautiful and commemorative leaves were selected as templates to form our unique silver-leaves. One leaf forms only one silver-leaf, hence our silver-leaves are rather unique.

Some of our leaf-templates.

Olenasilver

With the presence of other noble metals such as gold, palladium or platinum in silver, the anti-tarnish silver was obtained to prepare our silver leaf. We call the anti-tarnish silver Olenasiver.

Integrated Silver-Leaves

Not only a chemical-free process, but also a weld-free process were conducted to form our silver leaves. Attached is an integrated silver-leaves.

Gold Prill on Silver Leaf

Gold prill can be sintered on the silver leaf to enhance the silver appearance.

In Water

Owing to its noble property, silver leaf can not only sustain its beautiful appearance but also its gloss be enhanced in water.

In water for 6 months.

                                                 Gold prill
In our workroom, gold prill was used as decoration on the ceramic.

                                                                         Ag/Au
According to the test of sulfide solution, silver tarnish could be slowed down or even eliminated by the presence of gold and/or palladium. The process is also chemical-free.
                               

                                                                         Ａg/Au

 “Tarnish-free Silver ”

Silver is a beautiful metal, however, whether it is sterling silver, pure silver or any other kind of silver, silver tarnish cannot be avoided because it is based on the property of silverl itself. Plating is usually used to prevent the tarnish of silver, however, the wearing off of the plating will not be uniform and gives the silver an awful patchy and crude look. A novel technology was developed in our workroom to prevent the silver tarnish. The tarnish-free silver is also a chemical-free process by using gold, palladium, platinum, or rhodium.

“Embossment”

In some cases of electroforming, the mandrel may remain with the finished article. Accordingly, as indicated in the following picture, our powderforming could be used to make an embossment easily.

A palladiumize silver painting (embossment).

Olena is my lovely granddaughter, silver is a popular noble metal, hence olenasilver is my elegant combination.

Around 20 years ago, we made sterling silver rings to keep important memories of senior citizens.

These rings were reported by the mass media and also won some awards.

Last year we began to change a fallen leaf obtained in Switzerland into an unique silver-leaf by a chemical-free process.

 This silver-leaf brings back many pleasant memories.

When you want an eternal memory, we like to change your leaf into a pure silver-leaf. In addition to its natural beauty, the silver-leaf is unique.

                  You can keep the silver-leaf in any creative place as you like.

                                                   Hope everyone has a beautiful memory.