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Parent Category: Technical Articles from Journal Back Copies

Category: Technical Articles 1999

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When Dorothy told me she had photos of my work shown at the AGM and was proposing to put them in the Journal, I said "very nice" or some such. Then she added, "would you like to write an article to go with them?" Ah! Crafty!

So, back in time.

Although I had worked my way through several crafts, with wood, pewter and lino-cutting, it was not until some way through a course in Jewellery making at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London that I discovered some very dusty lumps of enamel in an even dustier cupboard. A not so dusty tutor was persuaded to show me basically what to do. It was a wilderness. Firing supports had to be made from iron and coated with rouge to avoid flaking - messy.

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