The traditional art of enamelling has been practised for at least two thousand years and may have originated in Western Europe : early Greek writers describe the colourful designs of the enamel- decorated weapons and armour used by northern barbarians.
In early examples of Greek and Celtic enamel work, only opaque enamels were used, and it [...]
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Enamel application
There are two methods for applying enamel to metal — dusting (which is unsuitable for small items of jewellery) and wet-laying. For wet-laying, put a little enamel powder into a clean ceramic dish and mix it with distilled water by degree. Apply the resulting mixture thinly and evenly over small areas of the metal [...]
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Enamel is a form of glass and enamelling is the process of fusing it to metal with heat. The earliest known example of enamelled jewellery is a set of Mycenaean beads which date back to 1450BC. Constructed using the champleve method, they are made from blue enamel fused to decorative gold beads. During the 3rd [...]
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