Ideas for infusing aether into fabric and metals. Precious metals focused.
An idea was given to me about enhancing jewelry at the basic level. As everyone reading this likely knows, materia is crystallized aether which contains the energy therein. It can be described as being 'aspected' and this to me is largely mysterious. It is mostly known that to 'create' down, artifacts: swords, knives, armors, gear in general, is deconstructed at the basic level and condensed into materia. During this process, if say, a gladiators sword was used often, 'broken in', you generally get materia aspected for enhancing physical traits of the body. However, to me the thought that aether has a personality and will only affect certain parts of certain people based off its source...is frankly queer.
Anyways, I have new ideas for harnessing materia. Ways to work around my seemingly muted aether capabilities and still get what I want.
Normally, if you crack a materia, or break it, shatter it, etc – it's trapped crystallized aether dissipates. It loses color and becomes brown regardless of the previous color it held. I was given the thought of trying to pulverize a materia under a press while it would be in a container of some sort holding metallic sands, say gold, and carbonized plus dark matters. The basic idea is that as the aether is 'escaping' its crystallized prison, the reagents and sand will attract the loose aethers and force it to 'meld' or cling to the metal sand. I have some initial concerns with trying to form proper, workable and forgable metals working materials from this. I can foresee the crystalline shards from the materia causing problems in the molten gold and other metals, disrupting the alloying process, due to the inherent differences in the basic crystal structure that crystalized aether does not share with metals. It will likely form a brittle intermetallic alloy that will more prone to shattering than molding with hammer blows.
That alone is a...rather difficult task likely littered with failures to come. Should this process ever work, I would then melt these sands down into alloys and further refine them from ingots into working material to make jewelry from.
However, merely making rings and trinkets is no longer all that will be getting produced. More is needed. It's awkward, and ineffective to try and sew a materia onto a shirt and expect results. A belt is fine for actual garmets, shoes perhaps, pants maybe, overall the process is awkward. Therefore I will be undertaking the extremely old, and almost entirely forgotten process of lamé to weave ribbons of gold and other aether-infused ingots I will have produced. Most weaver don't know of the process, and none of us practice it for a reason. Weaving in ribbons or wires of gold into a garmet lends it to being not ideal for continued and repeated wear.
I have recruited others to help me understand this process. I suspect my forray into lamé wont work fully, but I intend to see it through to get an understanding of fusing goldsmithing and weaving. I have heard, but never seen reference materials to another process of precious fabrics, called samite. The rough idea of samite is it leans on gold leaf and silk, and weaving it to produce patterns you can apply to, say a jacket, to gain the effects of the aethered metallic fabrics. We shall see, I have sent Ridley and Integra to Ossuary to pour over texts regarding both samite and lamé.
An idea was given to me about enhancing jewelry at the basic level. As everyone reading this likely knows, materia is crystallized aether which contains the energy therein. It can be described as being 'aspected' and this to me is largely mysterious. It is mostly known that to 'create' down, artifacts: swords, knives, armors, gear in general, is deconstructed at the basic level and condensed into materia. During this process, if say, a gladiators sword was used often, 'broken in', you generally get materia aspected for enhancing physical traits of the body. However, to me the thought that aether has a personality and will only affect certain parts of certain people based off its source...is frankly queer.
Anyways, I have new ideas for harnessing materia. Ways to work around my seemingly muted aether capabilities and still get what I want.
Normally, if you crack a materia, or break it, shatter it, etc – it's trapped crystallized aether dissipates. It loses color and becomes brown regardless of the previous color it held. I was given the thought of trying to pulverize a materia under a press while it would be in a container of some sort holding metallic sands, say gold, and carbonized plus dark matters. The basic idea is that as the aether is 'escaping' its crystallized prison, the reagents and sand will attract the loose aethers and force it to 'meld' or cling to the metal sand. I have some initial concerns with trying to form proper, workable and forgable metals working materials from this. I can foresee the crystalline shards from the materia causing problems in the molten gold and other metals, disrupting the alloying process, due to the inherent differences in the basic crystal structure that crystalized aether does not share with metals. It will likely form a brittle intermetallic alloy that will more prone to shattering than molding with hammer blows.
That alone is a...rather difficult task likely littered with failures to come. Should this process ever work, I would then melt these sands down into alloys and further refine them from ingots into working material to make jewelry from.
However, merely making rings and trinkets is no longer all that will be getting produced. More is needed. It's awkward, and ineffective to try and sew a materia onto a shirt and expect results. A belt is fine for actual garmets, shoes perhaps, pants maybe, overall the process is awkward. Therefore I will be undertaking the extremely old, and almost entirely forgotten process of lamé to weave ribbons of gold and other aether-infused ingots I will have produced. Most weaver don't know of the process, and none of us practice it for a reason. Weaving in ribbons or wires of gold into a garmet lends it to being not ideal for continued and repeated wear.
I have recruited others to help me understand this process. I suspect my forray into lamé wont work fully, but I intend to see it through to get an understanding of fusing goldsmithing and weaving. I have heard, but never seen reference materials to another process of precious fabrics, called samite. The rough idea of samite is it leans on gold leaf and silk, and weaving it to produce patterns you can apply to, say a jacket, to gain the effects of the aethered metallic fabrics. We shall see, I have sent Ridley and Integra to Ossuary to pour over texts regarding both samite and lamé.