A lot of techniques used for the production of jewelry haven´t changed fundamentally in hundreds of years.
The crafting process I use is also, in its principle, still the same as when it was used over a thousand years ago, to produce the original artifacts. The only difference is, that there are a few machines and materials today, that make process a little easier and a lot less time consuming.

After taking precise measurements of the original artefact, I hand-carve a copy in wax. Then I prepare a silicon mold of the wax replica, with which I can produce more wax models. Then the wax models are arranged and put into a metal flask and covered in gypsum to make a mold for the metal casting (in Viking times, a clay-mixture was used to form the mold). Once the gypsum has hardened, the whole mold is heated, so the wax flows out, and the molten metal is cast into the empty gypsum mold. Afterwards it´s just sawing off the individual pieces and finishing them up by filing, sanding and polishing.

In the whole process, no animal products are used.