How to Enamel - Being a Treatise on the Practical Enameling of Jewelry with Hard Enamels

Enamel is really a glaze applied to metals just as other glazes are applied to porcelain, glass, and earthenware. We will confine our attention to what is known as hard enamel in contradistinction to japans, lacquers, and enamel paints, which are often called soft enamels. Hard enamels are compounds of glass with different metallic oxides which produce the different colors. These compounds are fused together at a very high temperature and on cooling become extremely hard. They fill the gap between glass and china, the transparent fondants being to the layman indistinguishable from glass, while the opaque whites may be easily mistaken for china, and the countless other varieties form a chain of xscarcely perceptible gradations from one extreme to the other. Fig. 1. Agate Mortar and Pestle. The use of enamels is both very ancient and very widespread, for we find the process known to the ancient Egyptians and to the Chinese, although the highest development in the art was reached in France in the sixteenth century. We would refer the historical student to Cunynghames European Enamels in English and Luthmers Enamel in German. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 62603
Author: Chapin, Howard M.
Release Date: Jul 10, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English