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Cloisonne Enameling and Jewelry Making

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This is one of those books that you are giddy that Dover reprinted! it isn't for the very beginner in enameling but it will take the enameler thru all the steps for making some basic cloisonnes and then the settings and chains for them. The jewelry working/metal smithing section is worth the price of admission. The chain making section is old school just enough to get people thinking about the need for all the fancy gizmo's they sell today. I enjoyed the book as a whole. the B&W pictures are good being reprints. the project drawings, pictures and the wire bend diagrams are great. To bad more of the newer books don't include them. The resource pages were very complete and you will find most of them still doing biz and with web sites. If you have old Thompson Enamels you have picked up from some ole timer the list with numbers will be worth the cost itself. I own it, use it

Well written with many photos and a step-by-step guide for cloisonné. Sound advice and useful trouble shooting. It touches briefly on other techniques without enough detail information to use but enough to start an interest in expanding enamels and a few trial experiments.

The book is useful for a broad spectrum of initial enameling skills. While it doesn't delve into minute detail, enameling is a hands-on learning and application art. So I found the directions and and steps useful for my needs. I will take care of the details.

I am new at enameling and cloisionne and this book is an excellent source of instruction. Well written, good photos and details.

I would not recomend this book. The information that is in it is good. And it's nice that is has some projects to try, but there is nothing for a nonbeginer in this book. I've taken a few cloisonne classes, but they are hard to find I wanted to know more. I have had some problems and I hoped I could find answers to them in this book. There is no troubleshooting section, no comments even on how to fix the projects if something goes wrong. If your interest is anything other than curiosity for cloisonne, if you want to actually learn how to do this, DON'T bother geting this book.

This book while probably useful for those trying to learn technique is mostly self-serving for the authors. It does not include any of those accomplished enamelers who would be featured in the Eloquent object or part of the Renwick Gallery collection. From an Avid collector who thinks it is important to expose the students to the best of the best. Matt Cohen Zen of Watering Your Garden