Friday, December 1, 2017

Cloisonné Enamel fine silver blue green Mosaic pendant. Handmade enameled jewelry by Arctida.

I've been wanting to try enameling for a some time now and so when the opportunity arose I had to take it! I've chosen Cloisonné enamel technique for my first pendant but more pieces with other  enamel techniques are on the way :)

Cloisonné is an ancient technique for decorating metalwork objects by fusing glass onto metal. It is a very specific and time consuming process but the end result can be spectacular and the colors will not fade because the material is glass.

For this piece I first made a patterned fine silver pendant, added fine silver cells (cloisons in French), filled them with different shades of blue greens enamels, made a number of successive firings to establish color control and hand polished the pendant to a glossy finish.

https://www.arctida.com/en/home/129-cloisonne-enamel-mosaic-pendant-fine-silver-necklace.html

6 comments:

toosis said...

I think you nailed it! It looks fabulous! You should do more of these...

Stephanie Kilgast said...

oh wow! this is such a beauty!
I love it!

HolzundLeinen said...

Love these bright colors!

Unknown said...

What a beautiful pendant!

StaroftheEast said...

Wow, such an amazing necklace!

Odd Fibulae said...

Beautiful necklace. I love enamel crafts!

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