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Welcome to my shop of unique, handmade, glass enamelled jewellery and ornaments.
POSTAGE My prices include postage by Royal Mail, first-class, signed for.
Where possible I recycle packaging.
I am happy to consider special requests and commissions. Contact me through folksy.
If you experience any difficulty in placing an order please let me know.
I should love to be able to say that I had the decoration for the dish in my head from the first coat of enamel. But it doesn't work like that.
I have to build up a foundation of enamel over the copper, including an application of enamel to the reverse to balance the tension as the base expands and contracts.
Enamel powder does not shimmer and sparkle in the light; it has to be fired and will look quite different and , hopefully more attractive when it has been.
I may have an idea for the decoration of a piece but the colour man not fired to the shade I was hoping for; that means a rethink about the other colours for the piece.
The scrolled design I have in mind may not take the shapes I hoped for; the steel point may falter, wander off in a direction it chooses, encounter a patch where the enamel has not yet begun to flow or has already begun to set. The point drag a tail of enamel over the pattern.
That is the reality.
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Unless faulty, the following types of items are non-refundable: items that are personalised, bespoke or made-to-order to your specific requirements; items which deteriorate quickly (e.g. food), personal items sold with a hygiene seal (cosmetics, underwear) in instances where the seal is broken; digital items.
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This is a copper bowl decorated with glass enamel. The random pattern I have managed to generate suggests to me apple blossom that has fallen on a lawn.
The bowl is 74mm in diameter and 20mm deep. You might use it as a dressing table tray or a table centrepiece. Among other uses, customers at fairs have suggested that my bowls may be just the thing to use to drop a tea bag on when you take it from your mug or cup or may make good soap dishes.
The bowl is counter-enamelled black on the reverse. This is for technical reasons. The counter enamel balances the tensions to which the bowl is subject when each of the layers of enamel is fired at 700 degrees centigrade to fuse them as I build up the decorative surface.
After developing the inner surface of the bowl with layers of clear enamel and then green enamel I scattered small piles of white, pink and yellow enamels on the surface then made the pattern by drawing a steel tip through the surface while the bowl was in the kiln at 700 degrees, but cooling as the kiln door was open. In this situation the colours cannot be distinguished and the enamel is solidifying around the steel point. At the end of the day I accept the design the process allows me. The random pattern I have managed to generate suggests to me apple blossom that has fallen on a lawn.
Your bowl will be sent by Royal Mail, tracked 48, at no added cost.
Designed by Francis Hayes in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire
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