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 Enamelling for Jewellery Making
This course will enable you to understand the
characteristics of vitreous enamels and learn the techniques to fuse glass
to silver. We will be covering the application of enamel for use in
jewellery. You will learn how to enamel on flat, curved and domed metal
surfaces.
You will also learn how to make
colour charts
and how to prepare surfaces for enamelling.
Enamelling is the technique of fusing coloured
glass to metal. It is used as decoration on jewellery and other
objects because of its particular property of giving a coloured glazed
surface that can be transparent or opaque, to a metal surface.
The enamels are made by amalgamation silicon,
feldspar, soda, borax, flint, sand or combinations of theses and several
other components, and the colours are obtained by adding metallic oxides.
This course is ideal to be combined with
Silversmithing
or silver
clay course
Some ideas for using
enamelling in jewellery making.
Enamel can bring your jewellery to new heights
with the wide range of colours available.
Using enamels you can:
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Enhance
beads with colourful patterns.
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Create
silver charms
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Make
beautiful patterns on silver bracelets
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Make
interesting cuff links
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Use it over engravings
to add a new dimension to your jewellery.
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