Dorothy Cockrell

 

Conventional silver beads proved to be a blind concealing much more imaginative (and less fiddly) ideas. Anny suggested we look at beads made from other materials from which ideas on shape, texture, colour and much more could be drawn. Also, metal products which could be adapted, e.g. plumber's copper pipe sawn into sections, copper domes from ships’ chandlers, copper washers and copper foil.

 

This last was great fun; squashed into domes, spheres and sausages, pressed loosely or hammered, rolled into tubes and spirals and pierced with any suitable rod-shaped item, it made an astonishing variety of beads.

 

To enamel in the round: -

 

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