Handcrafted Arts and Crafts design in new Sterling Silver. The Arts and Crafts movement was a reaction against industrial mass production, having its origins in the Gothic Revival of the first half of the 1800s and sharpening focus over the Great Exhibition of 1851, its exhibits drawing criticism as being artificial, excessively ornate and paying scant heed to the materials involved.
The movement took off in the 1880s, its “Crafts” epitomised by creators like William Morris, its “Arts” by the like of the pre-Raphaelites.
(Interesting to note that almost without exception the leaders of this “back to the future” movement, from Gothic Revival to Arts and Crafts, were themselves notable financial beneficiaries of the very industrial revolution against the perceived crassness of which they rebelled.)

The above Handcrafted Arts and Crafts chain could never be created in a first-world, high-wage country, for even were the dozen odd oval links, the toggle, and the oval chain lengths between the ovals, machine-made, it would still require twenty-eight solder joints, and then the cleaning and polishing. Simply too labour-intensive, work nowadays that very few western bench jewellers will undertake even in Gold.
An original Silver Arts and Crafts chain has been taken to Jaipur, Rajasthan, west India, the work executed there by an elder of an established chain making family.