Plique-a-jour


Let the light shine through transparent, colorful enamel designs with plique-a-jour. Add this technique to your jewelry making repertoire.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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 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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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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Mesh Plique a Jour Technique

Mesh Plique a Jour Technique

While reading in GoM #4 , Volume 23 of August 2004 the interesting article by Benny Alba about Alana Clearlake,...
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