#Vitreous Enamel

[papercutterportfolio]

It doesn’t look like much because it isn’t much, but I can’t tell you how good it feels to do something with glass again.

Maybe it’s because I’m back in Florida, where I first started messing around with glass beads, but it’s been calling me back so loudly I just couldn’t ignore it any longer.

A good friend of mine challenged me in a very gentle yet firm way to get back into making art for art sake and stop being a money grubbing little bitch. All in love, of course.

I scrimped and saved and I have a few bits and pieces to start practicing enamel, and I am planning on getting some rods to go back to lamp working. I cannot wait. I know things feel bleak right now, and I have been really struggling with mental health lately, but to work with the pure colors and vibrancy of glass makes me feel so happy.

I do so hope you’ll stick around to see this new direction my miniature art will take. There will still be paper art, for sure, and I think a lot of what I’ve learned in paper layouts will help me make compelling glass work.

[techninja]

Unveiling the Lucrative Realm of Porcelain Enamel Coatings Market

Introduction

The Porcelain Enamel Coatings Market is experiencing a significant surge owing to its versatility, durability, and aesthetic appeal across various industries. This article delves into the dynamics, trends, and future prospects of this thriving market segment.

Understanding Porcelain Enamel Coatings

Porcelain enamel coatings, also known as vitreous enamel coatings, are glass-like coatings applied to metals such as steel and cast iron. These coatings offer exceptional durability, corrosion resistance, and thermal stability, making them ideal for a wide range of applications.

Market Trends and Dynamics

1. Growing Demand in Architectural Applications: Porcelain enamel coatings find extensive usage in architectural applications such as building facades, cladding, and signage due to their weather resistance and aesthetic appeal.

2. Rising Adoption in Cookware Industry: The cookware industry is witnessing a surge in demand for porcelain enamel-coated products due to their non-stick properties, easy cleaning, and scratch resistance.

3. Expansion in Automotive Sector: The automotive industry is increasingly utilizing porcelain enamel coatings for components such as exhaust systems, mufflers, and grilles to enhance durability and withstand harsh environmental conditions.

4. Emergence of Environmentally Friendly Formulations: With growing environmental concerns, manufacturers are developing eco-friendly porcelain enamel coatings, leveraging sustainable materials and production processes.

Market Challenges

1. High Initial Investment: Setting up facilities for manufacturing porcelain enamel coatings requires substantial investment in specialized equipment and infrastructure.

2. Intense Competition: The market faces stiff competition from alternative coatings such as powder coatings and liquid paints, challenging the growth prospects of porcelain enamel coatings.

3. Regulatory Compliance: Stringent regulations regarding emissions and hazardous substances pose challenges for manufacturers in ensuring compliance while maintaining product performance and quality.

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Future Outlook

1. Technological Advancements: Ongoing research and development efforts are focused on enhancing the performance characteristics of porcelain enamel coatings, including improved adhesion, color retention, and resistance to abrasion.

2. Expanding Applications: The market is poised to witness increased adoption in emerging applications such as renewable energy systems, electrical components, and industrial machinery.

3. Regional Expansion: Manufacturers are exploring untapped markets in Asia Pacific and Latin America, driven by rapid industrialization, urbanization, and infrastructure development.

[fashionsfromhistory]

Brooch

Edgar Bense for Boucheron

c.1890

Conceived as a dazzling dragonfly with delicate plique-à-jour wings, this brooch epitomizes the Art Nouveau style in both fashion and manufacture. With its translucent wings set en tremblant and its sparking rose-cut diamonds, the present jewel catches the light brilliantly. In the enameling technique called plique-à-jour, vitreous enamel is applied to openwork wire cells without a backing, creating the transparent effect of stained glass. The house of Boucheron was founded in 1858 by Frédéric Boucheron (1830–1902). First opened in the Galerie de Valois, under the arcades of the Palais Royal, the shop was perfectly situated in the center of Second Empire Parisian luxury. In 1893 Boucheron moved to the Place Vendôme—the first of the great French houses to occupy that location—where it remains headquartered to this day, with more than 30 branches across the globe.

The MET (Accession Number: Accession Number: 2018.447.1)

[antronaut]

Nora Turato - sleep / it's good for you! (2024)

vitreous enamel on steel (4 parts) 242 x 192.5 x 3 cm

[formlines]

U's the Best!

Aaron Nelson-Moody

from the website: This piece is part of our 2024 annual Charity Bentwood Boxes auction running from November 23rd to December 7th.

"The piece I made for this 2024 season is called, ‘U’s the Best!’ as I used just the U-forms on this piece. They are made from pierced copper sheet with vitreous enamel baked onto them for the rich colour, and as they are my first finished pieces using this technique it’s appropriate that I give them away. This design is a very respectful nod to the UNYA logo, and in my heart, I hope this piece lands up with them in their new building when we raise enough money."

-Aaron Nelson-Moody

[eriebasin]

A very rare large antique enamel dragonfly brooch made by Child & Child, one of the finest Art Nouveau jewelers in London at the end of the 19th century. Built in silver and vitreous enamel. In its original peculiar shaped green fitted box. Dates to c1900.

eriebasin.com

[cosmicanger]

Sterling Silver and Vitreous Enamel Talks to Trees Ring

[topcat77]

Ulrike Müller

Some. 2017

Vitreous enamel on steel

[dansedan]

vitreous enamel on copper set into liver of sulfur patina copper rings— sometimes a cigar is just a cigar

[coppercabochon]

Process of a recent work. CAD model -> wax and resin -> sterling silver. Materials: Sterling silver, vitreous enamels, found chain.

[sweatertheman]

I thought I'd redo this by giving Harry a huge buff, assuming all his stats are at their maximum efficiency.

Max Stats Harry is an Incredibly Unstable Detective God. He is incredibly smart, able to make complex calculations quickly, act and lie with ease, and call upon random useless facts, but also totally blinded by his genius, constantly side-tracked by art and poetry, and compelled to lie for pretty much no reason. He is a master of his and others' emotions, in control of himself through almost any situarion, excluding ones to do with his ex-wife, feel others' emotions acutely, see the future, talk to the dead, and manipulate almost anyone to do what he wants, though this causes him to seem insane, and feel compelled to abuse this power. He's an ex-gym teacher, fast, strong, able to take any physical pain, excluding exposure to the pale, in touch with his instincts, and really likes drugs, but also really likes drugs, and feels compelled to threaten people and destroy things for no real reason. He has the steadiest of hands, can react instantly, pick up on the most invisible of senses, put up a tough facade, understand machines intimately, and is really, really cool, but is also incredibly jumpy and egotistical, and unable to open up emotionally.

He's really, really not okay emotionally, as the strain of knowing so much, hearing so much, feeling so much is killing him. He can take the pain, and he can force himself to get up and detect every day, but the pain is still there. All it takes is one fuck-up, one reminder of his wife, one crack in his tough exterior, and he'll want to go and kill himself. For the sake of making the fight more fair, Harry is equipped with his pistol and 6 bullets, and the full set of Fairweather T-500 Vitreous Enamel armour.

As for God Tier Vriska, it's Vriska, in all her broken, piece of shit mass murderer glory. Flight via the use of some kind of pixie wings, semi-immortality excluding just or heroic deaths, probability manipulation, and mind control. Outwardly, Vriska appears cold, and like a massive 8itch. She mocks everyone, attacls everyone, kills everyone, all with the same asshole grin on her face. Her persona is that of someone with the utmost confidence in herself, someone heartless and vile, cruel and mocking, someone who enjoys killing, but not before squeezing every last bit of suffering out of her victims. With her mind control also comes mind reading. She is privy to what others feel and why and uses it to her advantage. However, on the inside, if I am understanding her correctly, Vriska is actually a rather insecure and broken teenage girl. She kills first to feed her giant spider guardian thing, and second because its part of her persona, the kind of person she has come to idolize as an Alternian. A cold blooded killer. In reality, she derives no real pleasure from any of her immoral acts. They serve only to drown out her insecurity. She's canonically a rapist, mind controlling the wimp boy into kissing her only to throw him aside when it makes her feel nothing. The most profound experience she ever had was when, shortly before her death, she reflects on the time she killed said wimp boy. She actually felt bad, which was something she didn't understand. She couldn't figure out why she killed someone she actually liked. Vriska is also a horrible strategist. She's impulsive and quick to act on emotion, driven solely by her urge to be in total control, and to appear powerful. This causes her to be tricked by Cue Ball Man into killing someone she was mad at, and into creating an unbeatable foe, simply so she could gain the noteriety of killing him herself. In short, she's a profoundly broken and empty monster, driven solely by an endless pit of insecurity, given unreasonable amounts of power she isnt able to use to the best of her ability.

Who would win in a fight?

[tacticus359]

Toying with making a marathon signet ring (for myself) alongside some other designs for sale. I plan on using sterling silver and vitreous enamel for the design.

[mirellabruno]

Brooch Edgar Bense for Boucheron c.1890 Conceived as a dazzling dragonfly with delicate plique-à-jour wings, this brooch epitomizes the Art Nouveau style in both fashion and manufacture. With its translucent wings set en tremblant and its sparking rose-cut diamonds, the present jewel catches the light brilliantly. In the enameling technique called plique-à-jour, vitreous enamel is applied to openwork wire cells without a backing, creating the transparent effect of stained glass. The house of Boucheron was founded in 1858 by Frédéric Boucheron (1830–1902). First opened in the Galerie de Valois, under the arcades of the Palais Royal, the shop was perfectly situated in the center of Second Empire Parisian luxury. In 1893 Boucheron moved to the Place Vendôme—the first of the great French houses to occupy that location—where it remains headquartered to this day, with more than 30 branches across the globe. The MET (Accession Number: Accession Number: 2018.447.1)

[disco-elysium-via-polls]

Kim Kitsuragi - "The boots are ceramic, vitreous enamel. They're fused to his skin from blood flowing downward postmortem. Removal of the boots is left for Processing."

Drama - It would be *clever* of you to omit the boots altogether, sire. If you are to *keep* them for yourself -- as you ought to. You have deserved them more than anyone else!

You - When *am* I gonna get them?

[possiblythreefourthspeahen]

OP if you haven't yet I really recommend you look into art jewelry - it's pretty different from most commercial jewelry, tends to be a lot more experimental, and goes beyond showing pretty rocks (though I also adore pretty rocks). It's not all art nouveau in style, but the philosophy and emphasis is similar: jewelry as wearable art, a creation in itself, sculpture that stands on its own or with the backdrop and context of the body. Art Jewelry Forum is free and has loads of pictures, articles, and interviews to read:

There's also narrative jewelry, a subsection of art jewelry, which uses form and material to tell a story. My favorite narrative jewelers are Carolyn Morris Bach and Kim Noguiera.

There's also some incredible enamelists working today. The Enamelist Society is a great place to learn more about enameling and current enamelists:

One of my personal favorite enamelists is Sandra McEwen and while her style isn't exactly art nouveau, it carries a lot of the flowing lines, natural forms, and vivid colors from the style.

And enamel jewelry, actually enamel jewelry, is not cheap! The cheap "enamel" - the stuff on pins and key chains and some costume jewelry - is actually an enamel paint or resin. Fine, vitreous enamel, actual glass fused to metal, is extremely labor intensive and priced appropriately. Sandra McEwen has a cicada pendant for sale that is basically just that central piece on a pearl strand and it is almost 3,000 dollars. If I had the money I would snatch it up in a heartbeat.

Anyway that's my jewelry rant for the day, there are awesome jewelers and enamels all around the world making beautiful, fascinating pieces you won't find at Kay's or Jared's or any other chain store. I hope these links and pictures are a good starting point for anyone looking to find them.

A lot of the time when I reblog jewellery on here, it’s art nouveau jewellery, because I really like art nouveau. In general, and in jewellery in particular. And most of that is the aesthetic. I like the natural forms, I like the twisty curly bits, I like the use of materials, I like how a lot of art nouveau jewellery is using metals and stones and other materials to create a specific form, an insect or a plant or a goddess or even sometimes nature scenes. I like …

I feel like a lot of the time with jewellery, it feels like ‘I’m going to use this object to show off the size and value of my pretty rock’. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Some of those rocks are indeed gorgeous. But art nouveau feels more ‘I’m going to use these pretty rocks, and several other things, to create the impact of this object’? I just love the use of materials, glass and enamel and colour, as well as precious stones and metals, to create a form or a scene.

Like, you get a diamond ring, it’s a diamond ring. But you get something like a dragonfly brooch (Louis Acoc):

Or a lilypad hair comb (Rene Lalique):

Or a wisteria branch (Georges Fouquet):

And it’s a whole creation. A little wearable piece of art.

And I don’t want to sound too dismissive. I know the craftmanship and skill and artistry that goes into any kind of jewellery making. That diamond ring took skill I will never have. I just.

I like the emphasis on form more than material that you get with art nouveau. Like normally you hear ‘glass jewellery’, ‘enamel jewellery’, and it’s cheap, it’s frowned upon, but in art nouveau it’s what that glass or enamel was used to make that’s the important part:

(Rene Lalique)

(Eugene Feuillatre)

Anyway. In summary, I really, really, really like art nouveau jewellery?