Lodewyk van Berken was a mid- to late-15th century Flemish jeweller and diamond cutter, renowned in the industry for inventing the scaif. The Flemish Region ( Dutch: Vlaams Gewest) is one of the three official regions of the Kingdom of Belgium alongside the Walloon Region Scaif is a Polishing wheel infused with a mixture of olive oil and diamond dust used in the Diamond cutting industry The device revolutionized the diamond cutting industry and contributed to increased popularity of diamonds.
Van Berken was born into a Jewish family in Bruges. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ Bruges (Brugge is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. His place of work was in Antwerp, where in 1456 he invented the scaif,[1] a polishing wheel infused with a mixture of olive oil and diamond dust. ||-||-||-||} Antwerp ( Dutch:, French: Anvers) is a City and Municipality in Belgium and the capital of the With the scaif, it became possible to polish all the facets of the diamond symmetrically at angles that best reflected the light.
Charles the Bold became the patron of van Berken and in the 1470s commissioned him to cut a 137 carat (27. Charles the Bold or Charles the Rash (Charles le Téméraire ( 21 November 1433 &ndash 5 January 1477) baptised Charles Martin Patronage is the support encouragement privilege and often financial aid given by a person or an organization 4 g) stone that later became known as the Florentine Diamond. The Florentine Diamond is a lost Diamond of Indian origin It is light yellow in colour with very slight green overtones
Legacy
Since the time of van Berken's invention, diamond cutting has become one of the traditional Jewish crafts. A bronze statue of van Berken, holding a diamond in his hand, stands in Antwerp's diamond district.
References
- ^ Diamonds Through the Ages (American Radio Works)
External links
- The Diamond Invention. Chapter 11 by Edward Jay Epstein
- Diamond cutting. Thank you Lodewyk van Berken by Jeffrey Blancq. Edward Jay Epstein (born 1935 is an American Journalist. Epstein attended Cornell University during the 1960s where he received his BA April 21, 2006
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