Precious Metal Clay and Enamel
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- Category: Technical Articles 2001
Molly Bullick
This is an account of experiments with enamel and Precious Metal Clay (PMC) by a person unfamiliar with enamelling. For those people who are in turn unfamiliar with PMC I will give a brief description of it and its properties.
PMC and a fairly recent development PMCplus is a material developed by Mitsubishi Materials Corporation in Japan. It resembles potters clay and can be shaped like clay. When fired in a kiln the organic binder which holds microscopic particles of precious metal burns out and leaves only pure gold or fine silver. The clay shrinks in the firing which accentuates impressed textures and decorative effects. This is indeed a very versatile material.
