Enamel making steps
Enameling is the art of decorating metals (sometimes glass and ceramics) with matte or clear colored materials with the help of fire. This art involves complex chemical interactions and is considered a laboratory art and is actually an object that combines metal oxide with some The salts are decorated with heat. The following points apply to all enameled objects.
1- Enamelware: All metal products made of gold, silver, copper, brass and bronze (and sometimes glassware and pottery) which are covered with white or colored glaze and with different colors of lines and patterns created by heat on it. , Is among the enameled products.
2- Embossed background enamel: It is a method in enameling by carving the desired drawings and lines on the object and then filling the gaps that are created in this way with colored glazes and placing them in the oven with sufficient heat. Give.
3- Cell enamel or house building: Another method is in enameling. In this method, the delicate wires are first soldered to the metal of the substructure according to the desired role, so that the surface of the object is divided into a number of cells. Then they cover the houses with colorless glaze and put it in the oven. In this way, the wires are oxidized and darkened by heat. Then sand the object and cover it with clear glaze. In the next step, the houses are filled with different colors according to the plan and placed in the furnace.
4- Painting enamel: In this method, copper is used more as an infrastructure. First, the surface of the infrastructure is covered with white glaze to the desired thickness, then the design is painted with the desired colors by the brush.
5- Bleaching: Covering the surface of the object with white and thick glaze until it reaches the desired thickness by heat is called bleaching.
6- Engraving: Fencing around the motifs with dark or golden colors is called engraving.
