Enameling


We cover more than 10 enameling techniques in several enameling articles and videos.

Metals Suitable for Enameling

Metals Suitable for Enameling

The purpose of this article is two fold. First, we receive a number of inquiries as to whether or not...
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Enameling Techniques for Beginners

Enameling Techniques for Beginners

After you learn to apply enamels by sifting, wet packing, brushing on crackle and firing the base coats, you are...
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Enameling on Sterling Silver

Enameling on Sterling Silver

I enamel on various metals making a variety of pieces from post earrings to 5" x 8" framed enamels. The...
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Cloisonne Primer – History of Cloisonne Technique

In the late 20s, a small enamel tray, made in China, introduced us to the word cloisonne. The material looked...
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The Metal Underneath

The Metal Underneath

In this article, I will discuss the basics of metal preparation for the enameling process. Some experienced enamelists may disagree...
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The Plique a Jour Technique with Torch

The Plique a Jour Technique with Torch

Plique-a-jour, in French, means "applied to carved spaces" or "membrane where daylight passes through". The 'plique-a-jour' enameled jewelry is endowed...
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Enameling History and Revolution

Through the years, a variety of enameling techniques has been developed. Some involve how the metal is prepared and some...
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Enameling Safety Issues You Should Know About

Enameling involves the firing and melting of suitable glasses onto and into metals for decorative effects. It is done at...
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Torch Firing Enameling

Torch Firing Enameling

Torch firing is a wonderful way to experience enameling in all of it stages. I see it as an extension...
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Enameling Applications and Preparation

Enameling Applications and Preparation

For more than two thousand years, goldsmiths have fused glass onto their work for color enrichment. Wonderful enameled work can...
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Enameling Tips: Cause and Effect

Enameling Tips: Cause and Effect

This article is a part of a series offering enameling tips and what is most occurring that enamelists encounter. This...
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Making Overglaze Enamels

Making Overglaze Enamels

Overglaze enamels, as their name implies, are made to be applied over other enamels. They act much like paints or...
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Screen Printing Dry Enamels

Screen Printing Dry Enamels

I have worked out a way to use screen printing methods so as to print on metal, using dry enamels....
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Enameling Tips: Ritual Over Knowledge

Enameling Tips: Ritual Over Knowledge

This article is a part of a series offering enameling tips and what is most occurring that enamelists encounter. This...
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Metals For Enameling

The most commonly used metals for enameling are pure copper and fine silver. The fine silver is primarily used for...
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Enameling Malleable Copper

Enameling Malleable Copper

Early in the 1400's someone discovered that a design of juxta- positioned colored enamels would not intermingle when heated to...
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Enamel Preparation Method

Enamel Preparation Method

The traditional method of enamel preparation was described by Cunynghame and Chapin. Large chunks of enamel were wrapped in a...
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Lead Bearing and Lead Free Enamels

The question about the differences between lead bearing and lead free enamel is the same as the questions about the...
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Intro to Enameling: Cloisonne Pendant

Intro to Enameling: Cloisonne Pendant

For the last couple years the W.W. Carpenter Enamel Foundation has held "Intro to Enameling" workshops that are designed to...
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Enameling On Fine Silver Metal Clay

Enameling On Fine Silver Metal Clay

Enameling on pieces made from Precious Metal Clay is a joy! The clay is malleable and will take any shape...
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How to Mix Industrial Liquid Enamels

How to Mix Industrial Liquid Enamels

Industrial liquid enamel is a versatile material. It can be used as a base coat, directly on the metal, or...
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The Enamel Material

Enamel comes in a number of forms: lump, string, liquid, and powder, as well as in the optical qualities of...
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China Painting on Enamel Process

China Painting on Enamel Process

Although enameling is a new art form for me, I came to it with many years of china painting experience....
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Champleve Enamelwork with Ferric Chloride

Champleve Enamelwork with Ferric Chloride

Champleve (shahmp-luh-vay), meaning - raised plane - in French, is the process by which a design is cut, gouged or...
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Raku Enameling

Raku Enameling

Raku enameling is an exciting process. It is smelly and dirty, and one is much more kinest hetically involved than...
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Etching Options for Champleve

Etching Options for Champleve

I have found through may research on metal etching that there is a plethora of information out there. I hope...
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Overglaze Technique

For more than twenty years, I have been using overglazes as a direct painting technique. My canvas usually is a...
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How to Quickly Dome Irregular Forms

How to Quickly Dome Irregular Forms

With this procedure you can dome nearly all regular or irregular shapes or forms, as long as the edges or...
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Grisaille and Limoges Techniques

Grisaille and Limoges Techniques

My enamel jewelry includes earrings, pins, pendants, lockets and rings done in Grisaille and Limoges techniques. Within most of the...
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The Earliest Cloisonne Enamels

The Earliest Cloisonne Enamels

An island in the eastern Mediterranean, with a history of more than 8000 years, Cyprus was one of the earliest...
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How to Add a Dichroic Effect to Your Enamels

How to Add a Dichroic Effect to Your Enamels

Dichroic glass is simply beautiful. Often referred to as dichro or dicro, the term refers to multiple ultra-thin microlayers of...
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Cloisonne Jewelry with 24k Wires

Cloisonne Jewelry with 24k Wires

Merry-Lee Rae has been making jewelry since 1966 when she joined her father in the garage while he dabbled in...
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Georgian Cloisonne Enamel

Georgian Cloisonne Enamel

In the conditions of world globalization, a big part of modern mankind realized how important human ties are to their...
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Proper Use of Liquid Metals

Applying liquid gold, palladium and/or silver in the final firing of enamel pieces is something that can frequently raise the...
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Making a Metal Brooch Frame

Making a Metal Brooch Frame

This is a metal frame for a brooch which can be made without any soldering. Findings can be glued or...
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Intro to Enameling: Double-Sided Pendant 2

Intro to Enameling: Double-Sided Pendant 2

For the last couple years The W.W. Carpenter Enamel Foundation has held "Intro To Enameling" workshops that are designed to...
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Plique-a-Jour Russian Soldering Method

There are a number of methods for plique a jour, a filigree technique that allows light to shine through the...
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The Enamelwork of Jamie Bennett

The Enamelwork of Jamie Bennett

It is a rare and most welcome event when a technical innovation is accompanied by an esthetic revelation. This is...
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Colorit: Tips for Beautiful Color Details

Colorit: Tips for Beautiful Color Details

The exceptional colors of the Colorit range manufactured by Inovis in Schaan, Liechtenstein has enabled innovative goldsmiths to explore new...
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Intro to Enameling: Double-Sided Pendant 1

Intro to Enameling: Double-Sided Pendant 1

For the last couple years The W.W. Carpenter Enamel Foundation has held "Intro To Enameling" workshops that are designed to...
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Enameling Tips: Enamel Suppositions

Enameling Tips: Enamel Suppositions

This article is a part of a series offering enameling tips and what is most occurring that enamelists encounter. This...
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Enameling Copper Balls

Enameling Copper Balls

How to use enamel on round or oval copper balls. A Step by step illustrated guide.
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Enameling Care and Considerations

Enameling Care and Considerations

The primary reason designer Amy Roper Lyons of Summit, New Jersey, began working in enamels is fairly black and white:...
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Copper Mesh Plique a Jour

Copper Mesh Plique a Jour

Interested in illuminating my work and using experimental techniques, I came across copper mesh. There are many kinds of mesh,...
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Proper Enamel Sifting Process

Proper Enamel Sifting Process

Sifting is the process of dropping and catching falling enamel particles. The control factors are mesh size of the enamel;...
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De-Enameling and Other Myths

De-Enameling and Other Myths

Up until quite recently if asked "How do you remove enamel from silver?" the answer was "with great difficulty." The...
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Fascinating Interaction of Enamel

Fascinating Interaction of Enamel

The fascinating depth and quality of the intesive colors that are created by melting stained glass on a metal surface...
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How to Work Enamel Hot

How to Work Enamel Hot

Photo 1: Apply a coat of enamel on a piece of domed copper and fire. Photo 2. A sheet of...
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Making a Cloisonne Pendant Using Torch Fire

Making a Cloisonne Pendant Using Torch Fire

Cloisonné is a French word that means 'to be confined,' 'to be cloistered.' Traditionally, the cloisonné technique consists in making...
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Micro Vacuum Cleaner for Enamelists

Micro Vacuum Cleaner for Enamelists

This article describes a micro vacuum cleaner, based on an aquarium pump, for use by enamelists. The vacuum cleaner allows...
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Champleve – Photo Etching with PnP Paper

Champleve – Photo Etching with PnP Paper

The use of PnP paper-originally designed to create printed circuit boards-to meet the artistic needs of metalsmiths, jewelers, and enamelists....
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Cloisonné Beads of Fine Silver

Cloisonné Beads of Fine Silver

I have been making my cloisonne beads since 1996 in a variety of methods with fine silver and wires of...
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Enamel Coloring Techniques

Enamel Coloring Techniques

On the difficulties with handling enamel: Enamel is one of the most durable methods of confining colors to a background....
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Plique-a-Jour Pictorial

Plique-a-Jour Pictorial

This article Amy Roper Lyons offers two things: a Plique-a-Jour pictorial and three safety tips when handling or working with...
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Portrait with Enamel Watercolors

Portrait with Enamel Watercolors

My design for a portrait in enamel is based on either a photocopy of a photograph or my sketch of...
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Large Scale Enameling at The Enamel Foundation

Large Scale Enameling at The Enamel Foundation

The Enamel Foundation provides the furnace and offers the use of their standard workshop tools, equipment and workshop enamels. (A...
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The Ceramic Tissue Method

The Ceramic Tissue Method

Enameled steel is the best support for the photographic image. It will withstand the burn-off temperatures without cracking the image....
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Gold Cloisonne Wire on Fine Silver

Gold Cloisonne Wire on Fine Silver

Susan Demski and I have developed a cloisonne technique for our jewelry, which ranges in size from 1/4" dia. to...
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Creating Basse-taille Artwork

Creating Basse-taille Artwork

Although Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands, our government has its scar in Den Haag (The Hague). Therefore all...
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The Enamelist’s Vocabulary

Each medium has its own vocabulary and so it is with enamels and enameling. The glass glaze material that is...
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How to Make a Plique a Jour Fairy

How to Make a Plique a Jour Fairy

This is a HIDI, (How I Do It). It is not the only way to make a piece like this,...
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How to Make a Frame for Enamel Pieces

How to Make a Frame for Enamel Pieces

How to Make a Frame for Enamel Pieces The instruction below is addressed to people who have little experience in...
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John Killmaster and “The Quickening”

John Killmaster and “The Quickening”

In the early 1980's, I made a drawing based on the theme of transformation, a sudden, intuitive grasp of reality...
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How to Make a Bezel

How to Make a Bezel

There are several ways to make a "box-setting" for enameled work pieces. This is one way on how to make...
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Setting a CZ in Enamel

Setting a CZ in Enamel

This report will describe means for setting a CZ gem in enamel, producing a ring and a medallion with a...
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The Enamelwork of Bill Helwig

The Enamelwork of Bill Helwig

When enamelist Bill Helwig celebrated the half-century mark in July of 1988, his wife Lenore Davis, asked the celebrants to...
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Sansone Studio: Famous Enamel Works

Sansone Studio: Famous Enamel Works

Sometime around 1989 or 1990,I got a call from a friend, Steve Kissler, who owned a small gift shop in...
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Enamels in Medieval Galleries

Enamels in Medieval Galleries

The innovative Medieval Galleries, occupying a complete wing of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, have now been open...
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Enameling on Electroformed Vessels

Enameling on Electroformed Vessels

June Schwarcz (b.1918) in Denver, CO. She is a Fellow of the American Craft Council and received their Gold Medal....
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Champleve Jewelry – At The Turn Of A Wheel

Champleve Jewelry – At The Turn Of A Wheel

After experimenting with the various techniques of enameling I decided that champleve jewelry best suited my interests. Being very familiar...
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Wire Wrapping Enamel Pieces

Wire Wrapping Enamel Pieces

Everyone has long seen gems wrapped in small wire cages with hanging devices, and more recently, the Dichroic glass pendants...
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Combining Enameling Techniques for Jewelry Making

Combining Enameling Techniques for Jewelry Making

Enamel technique has progressed in a logical and practical direction through the ages, advancing when inspiration, need or new technology...
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Fauré Studio Enamel Techniques

Fauré Studio Enamel Techniques

One of the many workshops presented at the 10th Biennial Enamelist Society Conference was The Fauré Studio Enamel Techniques, instructed...
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Foils on Fine Silver and Gold

Foils on Fine Silver and Gold

Marianne Hunter had been a painter and crafts explorer when she began enameling in 1967. She is self-taught. After 12...
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Enamel is Glass — But, What is Glass?

In the beginning, there was glass. Glass was created or formed along with our planet Earth. Glass was here —...
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The Enamelware of Bev Yokley

The Enamelware of Bev Yokley

The sun rises over the tree line and spreads its light across the fields. The horse, donkey, and pot-bellied pig...
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From Art to Enameling Career

From Art to Enameling Career

I would first like to introduce myself. My name is Jaime Frechette and I am a studio artist from Cincinnati,...
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Enamelists Make Plique-a-Jour Souvenirs

Enamelists Make Plique-a-Jour Souvenirs

In the gay nineties, one hundred years ago and more now, the newly rich were off to see the world....
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The Works of Solveig Haukaas

The Works of Solveig Haukaas

Solveig Haukaas started to work in an enamel workshop in Bergen, Norway when she was near 17 years old. One...
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Kenneth Bates: Dean of American Enameling

Kenneth Bates: Dean of American Enameling

When I asked him who Kenneth Bates is, he laughed and replied "a simple dirt farmer from New England." However,...
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21st International Cloisonne Jewelry Contest 2008

21st International Cloisonne Jewelry Contest 2008

Although the entry period was the busy Christmas season, The 21st International Cloisonne Jewelry Contest received about 100 entries from...
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Joseph Trippetti – Cloisonne on Steel

Joseph Trippetti – Cloisonne on Steel

When Joseph Trippetti returned from the Army in 1946, he studied for three years at Philadelphia College of Art and...
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Harold Hasselschwert: Materialization of the Exotic

Harold Hasselschwert: Materialization of the Exotic

Possibly of another time and almost certainly of another place, Hal or Harold Hasselschwert enamels entice the imagination with the...
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Designing PMC Pieces for Enamel

Designing PMC Pieces for Enamel

Precious Metal Clay, being fine silver and high karat gold, is the perfect material to accept enamel. It is possible...
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Blacksmith Enameling

Blacksmith Enameling

February 21 - 22, 2004 was another high point in our enameling career. Irmgard and I travelled to the John...
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Application of Enamel En Plein

Application of Enamel En Plein

Application of Enamel En Plein In my 30 years of enameling and creating objects of art and jewelry, I have...
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Enamel in Academic Jewelry

Enamel in Academic Jewelry

In mid-April of 2008, the SUNY-New Paltz MFA Metal program suspended its rigorous schedule for about a week. What were...
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Sansone Studio: Ancient Enameling Techniques

Sansone Studio: Ancient Enameling Techniques

Artists Joel and Pamela Sansone are maestros of glass. Walking into the Sansone's Studio is like stumbling upon a surprise,...
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Layering Over Sgraffitoed Liquid

I make light switch covers that are site-specific functional fine art and sculptural vessels that are not at all functional....
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W.W. Carpenter Enamel Foundation Workshops

W.W. Carpenter Enamel Foundation Workshops

This second conference, sponsored by the W.W. Carpenter Enamel Foundation proves to be an exciting week of activities, lectures, hands-on...
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Solid and Patterned Carefree Luster Decals

Solid and Patterned Carefree Luster Decals

Carefree Lusters are mica based luster pigments stabilized for glass, glazed ceramic and enameled metal applications. Carefree lusters are now available...
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Etymology of Enamel

Most people in our discipline use the word Enamel to identify both the glass which is fused to metal, and...
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The Enamelware of Sarah Perkins

The Enamelware of Sarah Perkins

The tendency to dismiss enamelwork as a superficial art­literally, as a matter of surfaces glossing over the duller hues of...
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Enamel on PMC or Fine Silver

Enamel on PMC or Fine Silver

A Beads Baubles and Jewels project. Enameling on metal clay adds vibrant color and exciting design. Learn the wet packing...
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The Enamel Arts Foundation Goals

The Enamel Arts Foundation Goals

Bernard N. Jazzar, President of the Board of Directors of the newly formed Enamel Arts Foundation, announces that the Foundation...
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The Jewelry of Patsy Croft

The Jewelry of Patsy Croft

"Bright colors we can find only in nature, quality craftsmanship that will outlast the seasons, and a promise to do...
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Byzantine Enamel Works

Byzantine Enamel Works

The exhibition, mounted at the Royal Academy in London in collaboration with the Benaki Museum in Athens, incorporates over 240...
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Layered Metal on Enamel Coats

Layered Metal on Enamel Coats

While the tide might seem to have been chosen to be catchy or thought to be frivolous in nature, it...
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Enameled Spiral Beads

Enameled Spiral Beads

I was drawn to the idea of making enameled beads by Edmund Massow's excellent article, "Enameling Copper Balls" (Glass on...
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Champlevé Enameling

Champlevé Enameling

Background My formal education includes a Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering and a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering. My interest...
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The Enamelware of Alan Mudd

The Enamelware of Alan Mudd

The English enameller, Alan Mudd, born in Lancashire, began his studies in the fine arts, and served an indentured apprenticeship...
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Felicia Liban and Learning to Enamel

Felicia Liban and Learning to Enamel

While living in Little Neck, NY, during the mid-sixties, I took an enameling class at the local YWHA. It took...
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The “Crystal” of the Royal Ontario Museum

The “Crystal” of the Royal Ontario Museum

A visit to Bloor Street and Avenue Road here in Toronto, Canada brings you face to face with the old...
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Novorit: Colorful Imagery

Novorit: Colorful Imagery

The Novorit polyceramics system has been on the market for a year and offers fascinating possibilities for the creative color...
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An Interview with Leila Tai

An Interview with Leila Tai

In this article, renowned enamelist Leila Tai discusses her many motivations and inspirations as well as her creative process in...
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New Zealand Enameling Culture

New Zealand Enameling Culture

When one looks at a world map to find New Zealand, it's easily overlooked due to its location and size....
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The Enamelware of Pat Peat O’Neil

The Enamelware of Pat Peat O’Neil

Pat Peat O'Neil, now ninety-two, started enameling in Girl Scouts when she was sixteen. They used a torch to fire...
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Easy Enameled PMC Pendant

Easy Enameled PMC Pendant

For those of you who have not worked with Precious Metal Clay, you'll find there are certain terms unique to...
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Enamel A Current Perspective

Enamel A Current Perspective Enameling, like other mediums in the vast world of art, has seen ebbs and tides of...
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Liquid Flux as Etching Resist for Basse-Taille

Liquid Flux as Etching Resist for Basse-Taille

In basse-taille (bahs ty), the metal has a design or a texture partially cut into its surface before being completely...
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Studio Enameling with Jaime Frechette

Studio Enameling with Jaime Frechette

It's hard to believe how quickly this year has flown. My kids are already half way, through their first quarter...
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Enameled Miniature Clock Cases

Enameled Miniature Clock Cases

Small ornamental clocks were among the medium priced ornamental objects that were in huge demand in the 19th century. This...
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Using Adhesive Techniques To Enamel On Deeply Fold-Formed Me

Using Adhesive Techniques To Enamel On Deeply Fold-Formed Me

Enamel on deeply fold-formed metal with renowned enamelist and teacher Ricky Frank to create an evenly coated piece using adhesive...
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Book Review – Beginner’s Guide to Enamelling

Book Review – Beginner’s Guide to Enamelling

The book is based on a workshop for beginners given by the author some years ago called 'The Second Coat'....
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Working with Large Mosaic Enamels

Working with Large Mosaic Enamels

An enamel of any size can be produced by working sectionally. I cut copper sheet into irregular shapes to enhance...
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Teaching Enameling at the International Enamel Studio

Teaching Enameling at the International Enamel Studio

One of the main tasks of the International Enamel Studio is to save our 1000 year-old enamel art and techniques...
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English Pictorial Enamels

English Pictorial Enamels

English enamels made during the period 1750 to 1840 were chiefly ornamented with transfer printed images and mottos. While the...
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The Enamelware of Radka Urbanova

The Enamelware of Radka Urbanova

Radka's first encounter with enamel was in early childhood. She used to go to an Orthodox Church with her father...
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Metallic Scratched Technique

Metallic Scratched Technique

This article describes how to do a metallic scratched technique in enamel designs in visual step by step procedure.  Metallic...
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The Work of June Schwarcz

The Work of June Schwarcz

There are few artists who can subtly control the relationship between what they perceive and the manner in which this...
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Industrial Liquid Enamels

Industrial Liquid Enamels

Industrial liquid enamel is a versatile material. It can be used as a base coat, directly on the metal, or...
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Cloisonne Cup – A Noble Chalice

Cloisonne Cup – A Noble Chalice

Who has not dreamt of that nobly shaped chalice, enameled all over with immaculate transparents... maybe just one fine gold...
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Applicator for Crumbs (Enamel Lumps)

Applicator for Crumbs (Enamel Lumps)

Applicator for Crumbs (Enamel Lumps) If you have worked with small lumps or tiny crumbs of enamel or glass to...
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The Goldsmiths: Studio & Shop

The Goldsmiths: Studio & Shop

Reviving the virtually dead enameling technique plique-à-jour, which means "the light of day as seen through a membrane," has been...
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The Enamel Art of the “Nine Lively Ladies”

The Enamel Art of the “Nine Lively Ladies”

We are a group of artists who call ourselves "Nine Lively Ladies." A year ago, I had to come up...
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Filigree and Cloisonne Enamel: Schitterend Sieraad

Filigree and Cloisonne Enamel: Schitterend Sieraad

This film has been made for the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, as part of an exhibition about...
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Creating a Domed Sgraffito Enamel Component with Ricky Frank

Creating a Domed Sgraffito Enamel Component with Ricky Frank

Follow along with teacher and renowned enamelist Ricky Frank to create a domed enamel component using sgraffito, dapping, counter-enamel, and...
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The Enamelware of Sean Alton

The Enamelware of Sean Alton

My affair with precious metals began while working with my father a talented jeweler who worked with spring movement. He...
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2008 Mexican Enamel Exhibition

2008 Mexican Enamel Exhibition

Last April 2008, at Galeria Medellin 174,in Mexico City, under the name of "Esmaltes Sobre Metales," two artists exhibited their...
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2009 Radiance Enamel Exhibition

2009 Radiance Enamel Exhibition

Gallery 21, an all-white exhibition space in Spanish Village, San Diego, California, became home to the enamel exhibition, RADIANCE from...
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2009 Netherlands Enamel Exhibition

2009 Netherlands Enamel Exhibition

One glorious morning in June, my husband and I set out on a trip to the small Dutch town Ravenstein...
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The Enamelware of Ben Caldwell

The Enamelware of Ben Caldwell

Ben Caldwell is a painter, copper and silver smith, musical instrument builder, and inventor. He trained at the Studio School...
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The Enamelware of Leila Tai

The Enamelware of Leila Tai

Jewelry artist Leila Tai is renowned for her extraordinary one-of-a-kind pieces celebrating perfection in nature and for her masterful use...
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Master Metalsmith Dorothy Sturm

Master Metalsmith Dorothy Sturm

Entering the enameling studio, one is struck by its openness. Light fills the space. Shelves are lined with organic vessel...
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Cloisonne Enamel Start to Finish with Ricky Frank

Cloisonne Enamel Start to Finish with Ricky Frank

In this video, Ricky Frank takes us from start to finish with a Cloisonne enamel project. Ricky also talks enameling...
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Enameling in Kecskemet

Enameling in Kecskemet

Getting closer to the end of 2008, we can state that the International Enamel Studio operating in Kecskemet has had...
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The Enamelware of John Smith

The Enamelware of John Smith

This article showcases the selected works from the enamelist John Smith exhibition at Kaskaskia college. The exhibition took place March...
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The Manufacture of Enamels

Minerals such as silica, soda ash, potassium nitrate, borax, calcium carbonate, etc. are weighed according to each enamel formula, well...
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How to Make a Bas Relief Bowl

How to Make a Bas Relief Bowl

This article, written by Dottie Wood, shares photos and step by step procedure on how to make a bas relief...
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New Ideas for Enameling

New Ideas for Enameling

When I was the only American enameling in a week's workshop in a small town in Hungary, it had taken...
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Expressive Art Enameling

Expressive Art Enameling

Expressionist art creates images designed to communicate the artist's feelings. In this art, the artist is not a dispassionate reproducer...
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The Jewelry of Tamara Sergijenko

The Jewelry of Tamara Sergijenko

What fun for me to reminisce about our early friendship: Tamara Sergijenko from Tallin, Estonia and I from middle America!...
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Terry Gay Puckett: Retrospective Exhibition

Terry Gay Puckett: Retrospective Exhibition

Editor's Note: Terry's Retrospective Exhibition had more than 30 enamels. The Retrospective Catalog has 26 pages with 31 illustrations. There...
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Coarse Enamel Mixes and Torch Fired Enameling

Coarse Enamel Mixes and Torch Fired Enameling

I have been using coarse enamel mixes (20/40 mesh) in my torch fire enameling work since 1972. My first use...
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2009 Exhibition of Enamel Art Work

2009 Exhibition of Enamel Art Work

A three person exhibition of enamel art work earlier this year by Veenu Shah, Kana Lomrur and Jyoti Singh created...
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The Enamelware of Tibor Kopocs

The Enamelware of Tibor Kopocs

In 1987, some drawings I had made were exhibited (about 30 etchings) in Szolnok, Hungary. A friend of mine, László...
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How to Make an Agate Imitation Cabochon

How to Make an Agate Imitation Cabochon

This technique consists of the successive application of silver foil sheets, changing the colors of enamels among them, and then...
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Unconventional Enameling Projects

Unconventional Enameling Projects

I am a self-taught enamellist. Having never heard of enameling, I began in the mid-70s with enamels and copper shapes...
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Commercial Enameled Art Projects

Commercial Enameled Art Projects

The show season had come and gone. With my kids still in school, I was unable to participate in the...
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Josiane Tragesar’s “A Way of the Cross”

Josiane Tragesar’s “A Way of the Cross”

In my capacity as Liturgical artist I recently received a commission from St. Columban's Catholic Parish to create a work...
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Enameling On Ballpoint

Enameling On Ballpoint

Multicolor enamel ballpoint pens can provide the artist graphic versatility and direct color enhanced drawing never before possible. In combination...
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BBJ 1208 – Enameling on Metal Clay

BBJ 1208 – Enameling on Metal Clay

A Beads Baubles and Jewels project. Enameling on metal clay adds vibrant color and exciting design. Learn the wet packing...
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Large Scale Enameling at JSW Studio

Large Scale Enameling at JSW Studio

After a long break we have restarted the JSW Enamel Studio, Vashind, Mumbai. A major effort was made in October...
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Fundamental Procedures for Enamelists

Fundamental Procedures for Enamelists

Mixing Dry Granular Material Frequently, we are asked how to mix two or more dry materials, such as two transparent...
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Ricky Frank’s Enamel Series – Part 3: Firing the First Layer

Ricky Frank’s Enamel Series – Part 3: Firing the First Layer

Ricky has painted his first layer and shows us a quick way to torch the enamel, which gradually leads to...
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The Influence of Enameling

The Influence of Enameling

My earliest awareness of the art of enameling occurred when I was only ten or eleven years old. My father,...
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How to use  rolling mills

How to use rolling mills

How to use a rolling mills
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Enameling

Enameling

This is a video of a work in progress on it's way towards being enameled!
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Ricky Frank’s Enamel Series – Part 4: Firing Second Layer

Ricky Frank’s Enamel Series – Part 4: Firing Second Layer

In this last installment, Ricky has blended his enamel colors, painted ind fired the first layers, and is now ready...
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The Enameler’s portrait

The Enameler’s portrait

The watch designer's portrait. Produced by Fondation de la Haute Horlorgie (FHH)
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Lillian Jones enamels a cloisonne pendant

Lillian Jones enamels a cloisonne pendant

In this slideshow, Lillian Jones enamels a fused fine silver disk to make a lovely pendant. She uses engraving and...
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Ricky Frank’s Enamel Series- Part 1: Blending Your Colors

Ricky Frank’s Enamel Series- Part 1: Blending Your Colors

In this first installment, Ricky grinds lump enamel to create his fine grains of color for a better clarity when...
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Jewellery Making Granulated Cloisonn Enamel Rock Crystal

Jewellery Making Granulated Cloisonn Enamel Rock Crystal

My film from the Gold-Glue series shows the production of: Silver Cloisonne enamel pendant with rock crystal cabochon. Filigreen Universe...
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Arsenal Metals and Enamels Exhibition

It seems like it was over a year ago, but in fact, The Arsenal Metals & Enamels Exhibition debuted this...
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2009 Barcelona School Enamel Exhibition

2009 Barcelona School Enamel Exhibition

Nuria L. Ribalta and her students from Barcelona School had an exhibition of their enamel works in France from the...
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CORAL & ANGELFISH 5

CORAL & ANGELFISH 5

Coral brooch , 18k , enameled .
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Ricky Frank’s Enamel Series – Part 2: Painting Your First La

Ricky Frank’s Enamel Series – Part 2: Painting Your First La

Ricky demonstrates how to begin painting the enamel on a silver piece, blending the light colors using his "salt &...
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CORAL AND  LITTLE FAIRY 12

CORAL AND LITTLE FAIRY 12

Coral brooch 18kt . hollow .
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Making an Enamel Advertising Poster

Making an Enamel Advertising Poster

Nested in the heart of downtown Cary, North Carolina, The Lazy Daze Arts & Crafts Festival is a tradition steeped...
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BLACK BEAUTY

BLACK BEAUTY

Coral brooch , 18k gold , enamelled . handmade.
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CORAL AND  LITTLE FAIRY 15

CORAL AND LITTLE FAIRY 15

Coral brooch 18kt , hollow .
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Stone age wedding ring

Stone age wedding ring

How it's made a couple of gold wedding rings, with funny drawings engraved on them and black enamel. Hand made....
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CORAL AND  LITTLE FAIRY 13

CORAL AND LITTLE FAIRY 13

coral brooch 18kt , hollow .
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CORAL AND  LITTLE FAIRY 16 – final

CORAL AND LITTLE FAIRY 16 – final

Coral brooch 18kt , hollow.
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CORAL AND  LITTLE FAIRY 11

CORAL AND LITTLE FAIRY 11

Coral brooch , 18kt , hollow .
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CORAL AND  LITTLE FAIRY 10

CORAL AND LITTLE FAIRY 10

Coral brooch 18kt , hollow.
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CORAL AND  LITTLE FAIRY 7

CORAL AND LITTLE FAIRY 7

Cotal brooch m 18kt , hollow ,
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CORAL AND  LITTLE FAIRY 6

CORAL AND LITTLE FAIRY 6

Coral brooch, 18kt, hollow.
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CORAL AND  LITTLE FAIRY 3

CORAL AND LITTLE FAIRY 3

Coral btooch , 18kt , hollow .
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SAMPLES OF THE FAIRY NECKLACE

SAMPLES OF THE FAIRY NECKLACE

Gold necklace with Fairy and wild flower motiff.
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Making of Carnival dancer pendant – Part 6

Making of Carnival dancer pendant – Part 6

beautiful girl dancing handmade hollow jewelry
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Heart Pendant

Heart Pendant

How is made a classic gold heart pendant (old school), with black genuine enamel. Hand made.
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Stain Glass Effects

Stain Glass Effects

A Beads Baubles and Jewels project. Add a splash of color to your designs with a stained glass effect. Learn...
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CORAL AND  LITTLE FAIRY 2

CORAL AND LITTLE FAIRY 2

Coral brooch , 18kt , hollow .
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CORAL AND  LITTLE FAIRY

CORAL AND LITTLE FAIRY

Coral brooch , 18k , hollow .
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CORAL & ANGELFISH 6 – final

CORAL & ANGELFISH 6 – final

Coral brooch , 18k white and yellow gold , tube frame , plique a jour enameling .
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BLUE LAGUNA 2

BLUE LAGUNA 2

A sample of BLUE LAGUNA : The sun umbrella making of . This is only a small part of the...
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Making of Carnival dancer pendant – Part 7

Making of Carnival dancer pendant – Part 7

5 cm diameter round pendant, showing a beautiful woman dancing at Carnival in Brazil. 18k white and yellow gold ,...
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Making of Carnival dancer pendant – Part 5

Making of Carnival dancer pendant – Part 5

5 cm diameter round pendant, showing a beautiful woman dancing at Carnival in Brazil. 18k white and yellow gold ,...
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Making of Carnival dancer pendant – Part 4

Making of Carnival dancer pendant – Part 4

5 cm diameter round pendant, showing a beautiful woman dancing at Carnival in Brazil. 18k white and yellow gold ,...
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CORAL AND  SPRINGTIME 1

CORAL AND SPRINGTIME 1

coral brooch , bla bla bla...
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CORAL AND  SPRINGTIME 1

CORAL AND SPRINGTIME 1

Coral brooch 18k gold , enamel . Handmade .
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CORAL AND  LITTLE FAIRY 14

CORAL AND LITTLE FAIRY 14

Coral 18kt , hollow .
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CORAL AND  LITTLE FAIRY 8

CORAL AND LITTLE FAIRY 8

Coral brooch, 18kt, hollow.
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CORAL AND  LITTLE FAIRY 4

CORAL AND LITTLE FAIRY 4

Coral btooch . 18kt , hollow .
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CORAL & ANGELFISH 4

CORAL & ANGELFISH 4

Coral brooch , 18k enameled.
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CORAL & ANGELFISH 3

CORAL & ANGELFISH 3

Coral brooch , 18k enameled .
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BLUE LAGUNA !

BLUE LAGUNA !

Static jewelry , showing an idilic picture of a life we all wish to have ....This is dedicated to my...
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Making of Carnival dancer pendant – Part 1

Making of Carnival dancer pendant – Part 1

5 cm diameter round pendant, showing a beautiful woman dancing at Carnival in Brazil. 18k white and yellow gold ,...
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CORAL AND  SPRINGTIME -final

CORAL AND SPRINGTIME -final

Coral brooch , 18k gold , enamelled . handmade.
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CORAL AND  SPRINGTIME 3

CORAL AND SPRINGTIME 3

Coral brooch 18k gold .
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CORAL AND  LITTLE FAIRY 9

CORAL AND LITTLE FAIRY 9

Coral brooch , 18kt , hollow.
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CORAL & ANGELFISH 2

CORAL & ANGELFISH 2

Coral brooch , 18k , enameled .
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DRAGONFLY

DRAGONFLY

dragonfly hollow jewelry brooch 18k gold handmade diamonds saphire plique a jour enameling skils art design
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ASSEMBLING FAIRY NECKLACE

ASSEMBLING FAIRY NECKLACE

Gold necklace assembling .
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THE NAME OF THE FAIRY

THE NAME OF THE FAIRY

Gold necklace with Fairy and wild flower motiff, handmade.
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Making of Carnival dancer pendant – Part 3

Making of Carnival dancer pendant – Part 3

5 cm diameter round pendant, showing a beautiful woman dancing at Carnival in Brazil. 18k white and yellow gold ,...
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Making of Carnival dancer pendant – Part 2

Making of Carnival dancer pendant – Part 2

5 cm diameter round pendant, showing a beautiful woman dancing at Carnival in Brazil. 18k white and yellow gold ,...
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CORAL AND  LITTLE FAIRY 5

CORAL AND LITTLE FAIRY 5

Coral brooch, 18kt , hollow .
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CORAL & ANGELFISH 1

CORAL & ANGELFISH 1

Coral broochm 18k white & yellow gold .
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