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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9566960, member: 2844&quot;]As you discovered, ajour is from the French &#039;à jour&#039;, which means (open) to the day(light).</p><p>The term ajour can be used for anything with holes or piercing, it is also used for ajour knitwear and sometimes even for decorative cast iron and other materials.</p><p><br /></p><p>The alternative which I gave is &#039;openwork&#039;, which is simply the English language term instead of the more international term.</p><p>As Holly said, ajour &quot;usually refers to pieces with open work that is pierced with a jeweler&#039;s saw&quot;. So usually, not exclusively. For pierced work I often use the term &#039;pierced&#039;, but it is certainly ajour.</p><p>If you prefer to use ajour exclusively for work pierced work, you can of course, just remember that it isn&#039;t a golden rule.</p><p>I am also fine with &#039;opengewerkt&#039;, or any other language, as long as you don&#039;t call it filigree, the word you used in post #4.</p><p><br /></p><p>Filigree is always made of wire, and that <u>is</u> a golden rule.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Filigree is derived from the Latin words &quot;fil&quot; and &quot;granum&quot;, wire and grain, because a lot of filigree is decorated with tiny globules or grains.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know which people would recognize this as filigree, I have never met them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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