After the Barong & Kris Dance, our next stop is to see some skilled art workers at work. We stopped at a place called UC Silver and took a tour of their workshop.
The entrance and gates of UC Silver is amazing! The outside of the building was just beautifully crafted out… huge golden dragonflies flit on the walls, and more dancing ladies are on the top of the roof along with golden roses and other adornments. Such intricate designs!
Resen showed us to their work room at the basement. There were already customer service ladies to assist to bring us look around.
This work room only for silver and we can see all the silver workers painstakingly working on their silver crafts.
The work room divided to 2 session: one is craft session and another one is polishing session. The room was a bit dim.
I guess it is because most of the time, the silver workers are working at their designated cubicle.
A typical cubicle is equipped with a table lamp, and the blow torch, thus bright room serve no purpose as individual cubicle would have their sufficient lighting.
The tools are simple – silver, blow torch, tools for bending, moulding, shaping, but the designs came out are fantastic!
After then we were brought to the polishing room. Rows of silver artists working in their cubicles. These folks had it lucky – the place had air conditioning.
I think the air-conditioning didn’t work at all, as we still can feel the heat in the room.
It was also fun to see girls and guys working side by side.
We came to see this woman in the front is holding a piece of silver jewellery in her tongs while using the blow torch on it.
Then, we saw the man next to her was using the round moulder to perfect the rings on his table. There were so many rings on his table. He was almost finished his works.
Another women were doing the silver pendants with the design given by the jewellery designer.
The method using here mainly is soldering silver.
Each of the silver artists or workers have their individual items on the table to work on and they were chit-chatting with the friends next to them.
Or some even walking around after they have finished their works.
We did have our family photo here in front of the work room, but the photo seems a bit blur…
While the work room is basic…the showroom is exquisite! We weren’t allowed to take pictures of the items in the show room.
There is a great variety of jewellery on display inside mostly silver and some gold which are available for purchase too.
There were earrings and necklaces, rings and bracelets from simple to amazing!
There were gem stones, precious and semi precious. Of coarse on the other hand, the prices of the jewelleries are not cheap as well.
Nothing I would personally wear so didn’t buy anything but it was still interesting to see how every piece is made from scratch. An interesting visit I would say.
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