January New Release - Torch Fired Enamel Jewelry

Title: Torch-Fired Enamel Jewelry

             

Subtitle: A Workshop in Painting With Fire

                  

Author/s: Barbara Lewis

RRP: $29.99

ISBN: 9781440308864

Format:  Paperback, 128 pages

Dimensions: 27.6cm x 21cm

Publisher: North Light Books

Aust. Release Date: January 2012

Book Description/Synopsis:

Torch-Fired Enamel Jewelry combines beading and wire-working techniques with the intense beauty of torch-fired enameled beads. After being introduced to the basics of enameling, the reader learns how to get creative with the enameling process through the stepped-out instruction of 23 projects. Throughout the projects, the author demonstrates the benefits of using torch-firing instead of kiln-firing, with techniques such as manipulating individual pieces in an open flame to produce enamel flows or burnt edges, manipulating the oxygen/gas ratio to get colour flashing and smoky hazes, ways to modulate colour and more, in addition to good old wire-wrapping, etching and other jewellery-making techniques. Unlike in kiln-firing, with these methods, if the reader is unhappy with the end result of an enameled piece, they can refire it!