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

THERE are several methods by which photographs may be reproduced upon enamel. However, since they are rather difficult, we will explain only one method, and for the other proces...

ENAMEL is “charged,” or put on the metal, in the form of a watery mud, by means of a small spatula. The most convenient spatula is one made from a piece of steel wire about the...

ENAMEL painting is usually done on a background of opaque white enamel, although other opaque colors are sometimes used. The metal must be prepared in the regular manner, and on...

AFTER a piece of enamel has been fired, it is often found that too much enamel has been used, that is, that the enamel may have run over the edge of the part to be enameled, or...

FOILS and paillons are generally made of fine gold or fine silver leaf. Silver foils are used on copper and gold work in order to obtain better enamel effects, for most transpar...

MANY metals can be enameled, but the most practical ones, those most used in jewelry, are gold, silver, copper, and their alloys. Hence we will confine our descriptions to these...

AFTER enamel has been charged on a piece of metal, it is “fired,” that is, heated until the enamel is fused, after which, on cooling, it becomes hard. It is best fired in a muff...

ENAMEL is generally bought in the form of hard chunks more or less flat and varying from the size of an acorn to that of a large dinner plate. When it is made it is poured into...

AFTER an enameled piece has been stoned and fired for the last time, it is often desirable to give the enamel a gloss or polish additional to that which it naturally receives fr...

The aim of this book is to explain practical enameling in such a way that one entirely unacquainted with the subject will, after a little study, not only understand the fundamen...