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This exciting enamelling day course explores the skills and techniques of kiln enamelling, led by Eleanor Watson. We will explore the ancient process of fusing finely powdered glass onto the surface of copper. These beautiful techniques were used by the ancient Chinese, Greeks, Celts and Egyptians to decorate metal and add colour to metal jewellery.
If you love working with colour you will enjoy enamelling; the combinations are limitless and the results swift to see as they emerge from the kiln. We will experiment with a range of simple decorative techniques to create your very own one-off pieces to make into unique jewellery to wear home.
On this day course you will learn to:
- Prepare copper for enamelling
- Make several sample pieces using a range of techniques
- Explore the use of opaque and transparent enamels
- Use decorative inclusions (e.g. frit, glass threads, millefiore and silver leaf)
- Cover health and safety and the kiln firing process
- Explore colour, and surface designs with stencils, printing and drawing
- Design a final piece to finish and mount on jewellery findings by the end of the day.
- You may make 3 or 4 completed pieces in total depending on how complex your designs are!
A supply of silver-plated jewellery findings will be available on which to mount your sample pieces and information will be provided on suppliers of enamelling equipment and jewellery findings should you decide you want to do more!
Plenty of tea and coffee and biscuits will also be provided, enamelling is thirsty work!
There is a limit of 4 people per workshop enabling faster learning.
For more details & bookings contact Richard on 020 7249 1565
There is a minimum age limit for insurance purposes of 16 years or older for this day course.
