Torch fired Enameling.

For a while I have wanted to have a go at torch fired enameling. Well I have a torch and I have enamels for my lampworking so it seemed silly not to. I've have been unsuccessfully trying to torch fire some copper components I bought last year. I kept getting problems with the glass chipping off the edges and cracks appearing.

I bought the book Torch Fired Enamel Jewellery by Barbara Lewis and watched her videos online but I couldn't work out what I was doing wrong.

Very good book, by the way.

I can't remember how I came to the conclusion that firescale was the problem but I did some research and found out that If I used a flux as the first coat this should eliminate the problem and it worked!

So I torched fired a few components and then made this bracelet with them.

 

This bracelet has been made using a textile art fibre bead by Carolyn Saxby. I took some hand dyed sari silk and wrapped it around some wire and then wrapped that with some antique copper wire and seed beads in bronze. The next step was to create some chain by threading lots of little jump rings onto wire and winding this around the ribbon.
I  torched fired some copper flowers and headpins with enamel and attached them to the bracelet. Some more torched fired enamel flowers and a lampwork glass leaf was added as dangles next to the enamelled copper ring and hand painted patina toggle bar that makes the clasp and completes this bracelet. - See more at: http://www.earth-shine.co.uk/product/kazbah-antique-bronze-enamel-and-silk-ribbon-bracelet#sthash.ZYSRJeIs.dpuf

I made this bracelet using a textile art fibre bead by Carolyn Saxby. I took some hand dyed sari silk and wrapped it around some wire and then wrapped that with some antique copper wire and seed beads in bronze. The next step was to create some chain by threading lots of little jump rings onto wire and winding this around the ribbon.
I  torched fired some copper flowers and headpins with enamel and attached them to the bracelet. Some more torched fired enamel flowers and a lampwork glass leaf was added as dangles next to the enamelled copper ring and hand painted patina toggle bar that makes the clasp and completes this bracelet.

 

If you would like to buy this bracelet it's available for sale in my website store here: Kazbah

Thanks for looking.

Linda

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This bracelet has been made using a textile art fibre bead by Carolyn Saxby. I took some hand dyed sari silk and wrapped it around some wire and then wrapped that with some antique copper wire and seed beads in bronze. The next step was to create some chain by threading lots of little jump rings onto wire and winding this around the ribbon.
I  torched fired some copper flowers and headpins with enamel and attached them to the bracelet. Some more torched fired enamel flowers and a lampwork glass leaf was added as dangles next to the enamelled copper ring and hand painted patina toggle bar that makes the clasp and completes this bracelet. - See more at: http://www.earth-shine.co.uk/product/kazbah-antique-bronze-enamel-and-silk-ribbon-bracelet#sthash.ZYSRJeIs.dpuf