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Category: Technical Articles 2000

Dorothy Cockrell

Following the Masterclass given at the York conference in 1999, I attended a short course at the Jewellery School in Birmingham on PMC. Fascinating stuff- metal working skills were not required but experience of handling pastry and icing certainly helped.

At home, I found my Flamefast 1000 kiln handled the sintering* very well and the next step was to try enamelling.

The leaflet which accompanies the raw material suggests enamel can be mixed with it before sintering. Nothing is ever as simple as the written instructions lead one to believe! First, I tried putting a lump of opalescent blue enamel on a piece of the clay and then sintering it. It turned a deep brown, soaking the clay and sitting in a shiny lump on top.

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