. Silverwork and jewelery; a text-book for students and workers in metal, by H. Wilson. than the first, and having decidedon your design, bend the wire edgewiseinto the shape required; dip it into boraxwater, and place it in position. Get a sec-tion of the design done in this way, thencharge the work with snippets of 18-caratsolder and tack the wires in their is not necessary to flush the joints the work out and proceed until thepanel is complete (fig. 133). Some enamelers do not solder the cloi-sons, but if they are not soldered, whenthe enamel is fired again the cloisons
. Silverwork and jewelery; a text-book for students and workers in metal, by H. Wilson. than the first, and having decidedon your design, bend the wire edgewiseinto the shape required; dip it into boraxwater, and place it in position. Get a sec-tion of the design done in this way, thencharge the work with snippets of 18-caratsolder and tack the wires in their is not necessary to flush the joints the work out and proceed until thepanel is complete (fig. 133). Some enamelers do not solder the cloi-sons, but if they are not soldered, whenthe enamel is fired again the cloisons mayfloat about and get out of place. Still ifthe gold back is thick, and a few of themain cloisons and the outer ring are sol-dered, the remainder can well be left to befixed by the melting of the enamel. Now, having chosen your enamel, sup-pose opal for the ground, green for theleaves, blue for the dividing rays; grindup each color separately in the small agatemortar, and when it is like fine sand,wash away the milky portion of the en-amel by pouring clean water over it until 204. EnamelWork Fig. 133. 205 Enamel the residue is clear, sparkling, and crystal-Work line. Now, with a small spatula fill eachcell or cloison with the proper color,taking care that no grains of color getinto neighboring cells. Drain away thesuperfluous water with bits of clean blot-ting-paper, fill the other cells, and drythem in like manner. You will now makea support out of a square of thin sheet-iron, having the center bossed up to fit theunderside of the brooch. Paint this overwith loam or whitening and water witha little borax added. When it is dry,place the work upon the support, andhaving dried the enamel on an iron plateheated by a spirit lamp or a Bunsen burner,place it in the muffle for about a minuteuntil the enamel fuses. Take it out, andboil in dilute acid to remove the darkscale of oxide which has formed on thesurface. You will find that the enamelon fusing has greatly shrunk in volume;re
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