enameling

Kohler Company During April and May of 1993 I was a resident artist at the Kohler Company factory in Sheboygan,...

Some years ago, I was working on a cloisonné piece using silver wire on copper in my home studio and...

Over the years, I have been experimenting to find ways of combining techniques so as to save firing time. Because...

Invented in 1996 by Peter Johns, a professor of silversmithing at Englands Middlesex University, Argentium[R] Sterling Silver, like traditional sterling...

I have been an artist in enamelling for nine years. In 1999, I took a specialist jewellery course with completely...

Line-folds offer a large area of exploration. In addition to the use of line-folds by themselves, it is valuable to...

This technique involves the blending of several transparent and opalescent colors on a background of flux flecked with white, with...

An artist's studio can tell a story about the life and attitudes of the creative soul who inhabits the space....

In times, characterized by temporal and rapid changes in many values, it is necessary to hold on to tradition, particularly...

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

Laser welders, it seems, have as many applications as there are imaginations and types of jewelry. This laser welding project...

When Venetian glassmakers sold out their state secrets to Czech glassmakers, Jablonec began its hegemony in glass beads. The region...

Hali Baykov offers here some diagrams and notes, with the basic steps in making specialized findings, including double pins and...

Daniela: The thing about the jewelry is that it’s not just a little picture. It’s everything that surrounds it and...

The show season had come and gone. With my kids still in school, I was unable to participate in the...

This is a metal frame for a brooch which can be made without any soldering. Findings can be glued or...

Entering the enameling studio, one is struck by its openness. Light fills the space. Shelves are lined with organic vessel...

On September 13, 1990, Adda Husted-Andersen, familiarly known as Andy, died in Copenhagen, Denmark, her native land. She was a...

Ivy Solomon combining resin, metal clay, and traditional fabrication techniques, her award-winning pendants are structured around textures and colors in...

"What's so good about enameling is that you can learn a new technique and then approach your work with a...

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

Camille Fauré: Impossible Objects Cork Marcheschi lSBN 615-13229-4 172 pages; full color; 11 x 9 inches This book demands to...

Editor's Note: Terry's Retrospective Exhibition had more than 30 enamels. The Retrospective Catalog has 26 pages with 31 illustrations. There...

Reticulation is not difficult, but it does take practice, concentration, and a deft torch hand. Also, the pattern and appearance...

This article is a review on the New Works Exhibition by Belle and Roger Kuhn held at the Plum Gallery,...

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

Inhorgenta Europe (February 15 to 18, 2008), held in Munich, has become one of the most important springboards for young...

It was forever ago, as they like to say, when they first met. It was the Depression and they "married...

Since human beings first started transforming precious metals into jewelry, they have focused on ways of designing the surfaces. In...

In every aspect of my daily life I am, and have been for quite some time, concerned with promoting and...

This article is one of a series of articles from Metalsmith Magazine "Fads and Fallacies".  For this 1987 Fall, A....

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

Reviving the virtually dead enameling technique plique-à-jour, which means "the light of day as seen through a membrane," has been...

Flamboyant colors and forms ranging from the simple to the expansive characterize the sculptural jewelry of the American metalsmith and...

To begin with, it might be important to present some background material on Kyoto itself. The Emperor Kammu founded Kyoto...

In 1996, Rio Grande in Albuquerque, New Mexico, introduced artists and jewelers in the United States to Precious Metal Clay...

The fine and fascinating enamel plaque shown here [Pic. 1] is a copy in enamels after a painting by the...

This article showcases various international exhibitions and competitions in the form of collected exhibition reports published in the 1987 Summer ...

Part I "I'll become a miner." Manfred Kuettner made this decision when he learned, while he was looking for an...

The inspiring environment where the students of the Royal College of Art are trained is not only limited to the...

Although Patty Spiro of Live Oak Studios in Chipley, Florida, doesn’t earn a living making jewelry full time, you wouldn’t...

For the "Jewelry Design" show at the Johnson Museum of Art, Louise Porter, Coordinator of Crafts, selected both jewelry and...

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1994 Summer issue of the...

Discretion is everything: ingenious designs conceal watches inside items of jewelry or accessories. The forerunners of these secret timepieces can...

Engine Turned Fine Silver for Basse Taille I do engine turning on precious metal. It is a joy. The finished...

At Nanopod Hybrid Studio in Toronto, owner and chief alchemist Tosca Terran forms metal and glass into elegant adornments of...

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

This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named “Recent Sightings” where Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftsmanship, design, the artists,...