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Luis Méndez López
Europe and Eurasia Spain
Year(s) attended: 2010, 2011
Jewelry
Luis began working at his father’s filigree jewelry workshop in Tamames, Salamanca, when he was 14. He and his brothers now represent the third generation of goldsmiths in their family.
A traditional goldsmith technique introduced by Greek and Phoenician settlers in Spain and Portugal, filigree is similar to textile embroidery, employing gold and silver threads that are smoothed or twisted, and sometimes, worked over a metal sheet.
