The process of enameling consists in coating the surface of metal or other substance that will bear to be raised to a red heat with a layer of melted glass. Certain metals, among which are gold ...

Which is not to say that enameling has ended as a popular craft or that technical skills have withered. “Little Dreams in Glass and Metal: Enameling in America, 1920 to the Present” at the ...

The Chinese enameling called cloisonne has been made for centuries. A thin metal wire is bent into shape on a metal vase and soldered into place. Then colored enamels are floated in to fill each ...

A metal vase was covered with thick enamel, usually white, then fired. Then an artist painted a scene or pattern with colored enamels, and the vase was fired again.

His craftsmen tried widening the pattern and narrowing it, deepening it or making it shallower until finally (for reasons no one will ever really know) the enamel adhered perfectly to the metal.