Jeweler's Enameling Workshop: Techniques and Projects for Making Enameled Jewelry

by Pauline Warg

Overview

Add Vibrant Color to Your Jewelry!

Enameling is the one of the best ways to add color to your jewelry--and anyone can do it! In Jeweler's Enameling Workshop, master jeweler Pauline Warg shares her easy-to-follow approach to enameling. You'll first learn the basics of kiln firing and torch firing, including equipment, tools, safety, and how to troubleshoot problems. Then, twenty projects for beautiful necklaces, pendants, earrings, bracelets, and rings walk you through various dry and wet enameling techniques. You'll learn to:

• Stencil simple designs using multiple colors of enamel
• Incorporate foil and glass beads and threads into your designs
• Layer enamel on stamped metal for added dimension
• Use metal screen as a canvas on which to create an enameled pattern
• Create intricate designs with the classic techniques of cloisonne and champleve

Clear photographs and detailed step-by-step instructions will have you creating stunning designs using exciting techniques in no time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781632500021
Publisher:	F+W Media
Publication date:	08/31/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	25 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Pauline Warg has been a metalsmith for 38 years. She is the author of Making Metal Beads, a contributor to Jewelry Design Challenge (both Lark, 2010), and appears in the DVD Basic Jewelry Enameling: Torch Fired Tutorial with Pauline Warg. Pauline owns and operates WARG Enamel and Tool Center in Scarborough, Maine.

Editorial Reviews

"An expansive overview provides everything from the chemistry behind enameling to tools and supplies and enameling safety to wet-packing techniques such as cloisonne and champleve. Jewelrymakers with metalworking experience may find enameling a natural extension of their repertoire of techniques, and there's enough information and projects here to get started." — Library Journal

From the Publisher

06/01/2016
Enameling is a process in which glass powder, often colored, is fused to a metal surface using kiln or torch firing. Warg, an expert metalsmith, has extensive experience with enameling techniques, and this work provides an introduction to the process. An expansive overview provides everything from the chemistry behind enameling to tools and supplies and enameling safety to wet-packing techniques such as cloisonné and champlevé. This is followed by a series of projects in increasing levels of difficulty, starting with a pair of simple enameled copper earrings and progressing through a basic cloisonné pendant, a small series of pieces using copper washers (available from a hardware store), and finishing with intricate champlevé designs and a bracelet requiring advanced metalworking skills. Full lists of tools and materials are provided with each project, as are step-by-step instructions. There are photographs of the more complex steps, but visual learners may prefer Warg's DVD Basic Jewelry Enameling: Torch Fired Tutorial, which covers much of the same ground. Enameling isn't a skill that one picks up casually—it uses a lot of specialty supplies, and pieces must be torch- or kiln-fired, a process that requires a safe, well-ventilated working space. VERDICT Jewelrymakers with metalworking experience may find enameling a natural extension of their repertoire of techniques, and there's enough information and projects here to get started.

Library Journal