ENAMEL
Vitrum Signum
Gresham Works Mornington Road North Chingford London E4 7DR www.vitrumsignum.com Also do gold leaf and foil, plus copper shapes, enamel tools and equipment etc. W.G Ball Ltd Anchor Road Longton Stoke on Trent ST3 1JW http://www.wgball.co.uk/ Also supply copper shapes and equipment. Milton Bridge Unit 9 Trent Trading Park Bottleslow Street Hanley Stoke on Trent Staffs ST1 3NA http://www.milton-bridge.co.uk/ Cooksons Cookson Precious Metals Limited 59-83 Vittoria Street Birmingham B1 3NZ http://www.cooksongold.com Metal Clay Stock a range of Japanese enamels and copper blanks. www.metalclay.co.uk/enamelling/ GOLD LEAF
Cornelissen a wonderful art shop near the British Museum in London, worth a visit if you are in the city.
105 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3RY. Mail order : http://www.cornelissen.com/ Stuart R Stevenson Ltd 68 Clerkenwell Road London EC1M 5QA Tel: 020 7253 1693 Mail order : http://www.stuartstevenson.co.uk/ The Heaton Cooper Studio Ltd, Grasmere, Ambleside, Cumbria LA22 9SX, UK. Tel: 015394 35280 Mail order: http://www.heatoncooper.co.uk/eshop1/ Wrights of Lymm Wright House, Crouchley Lane, Lymm, Cheshire WA13 0AS Tel: 01925 752226 info@wrightsoflymm.co.uk http://www.stonehouses.co.uk/ RUBBER STAMPS
Get your own made here :
Make Your mark http://www.makeyourmarkstamps.co.uk/ Blade Rubber Stamps www.bladerubberstamps.co.uk/ RISO SCREENS
Both the Guild and the BSOE have a riso screen service for memebers. Another good place though a bit more expensive is : Themofax Screens http://www.thermofaxscreens.co.uk/ and also check this page on the Handprinted website : http://www.handprinted.co.uk/printmaking/screen-printing/thermofax PHOTO-ETCHING
If your require a batch of pieces photo-etching is worth exploring :
Chempix http://www.chempix.com/jewellery.htm |
METAL
Cooksons
Cookson Precious Metals Limited 59-83 Vittoria Street Birmingham B1 3NZ http://www.cooksongold.com Argex Limited 130 Hockley Hill Hockley Birmingham B18 5AN http://www.argex.co.uk/contact.php Metalor Ltd 74 Warston Lane Hockley Birmingham B18 6NG http://www.metalor.com Stephen Betts Group, 49-63 Spencer Street, Hockley, Birmingham, B18 6DE. http://www.bettsmetals.com/ NB !! COPPER : The best copper for enameling is an alloy that is oxygen and phosphorus free. Smiths Metal Centres Unit 3, Power Station Road, Rugeley, Staffordshire WS15 2HS Telephone: 01889 576117 email: birmingham@smithmetal.com http://www.smithmetal.com/locations/birmingham.htm John Keatley Metals http://www.johnkeatleymetals.com/index.html DECALS
For bespoke commercial printing try
Digital Ceramic The Old School Brindley Ford Stoke-on-Trent Staffordshire ST8 7QD Tel: +44 (0)1782 512 843 fax: +44 (0)1782 517026 info@digitalceramics.com > page for info on print orders http://digitalceramics.com/index.php?activity=ceramTrans There is also a company called Ceramic Digital check out / shop around.... For the blank U-wet paper which is ceramic transfer paper that you can print / mark make onto yourself with painted enamel mixed with the oil based medium contact : John Purcell Papers 15 Rumsey Road London SW9 0TR T: 020 7737 5199 F: 020 7737 6765 E: jpp@johnpurcell.net http://www.johnpurcell.net/ceram.html LAZER ETCHING
On paper only ! but a good place for courses and for making stencils etc
http://www.edinburghlaserstudio.org.uk/Homepage.html DIE STAMPING
Another recommended way of making a series of repeatable pieces is die stamping . This service is available from:
David & Graham davidgrahammedallists.co.uk/ West Sussex Tel No: 01293 851294 |
TOOLS
Cooksons - now selling kilns too !
Cookson Precious Metals Limited 59-83 Vittoria Street Birmingham B1 3NZ http://www.cooksongold.com Betts metal group formerly Suttons www.bettsmetalsales.com/c-Jewellery-Tools/ Thomas Sutton (Birmingham) Ltd. 91 Vittoria Street Birmingham B1 3NU Proops Brothers Technology House 34 Saddington Road Fleckney Leicester LE8 0AW www.proopsbrothers.co.uk H.S. Walsh Birmingham Showrooms 1-2 Warstone Mews Birmingham B18 6JB http://www.hswalsh.com/ GLASS MULLERS
Great Art is an Online shop - put the item you require in the search box and it will search for you. They sell all sorts, worth having a good look around the site for all manner of art equipment & materials.
http://www.greatart.co.uk/ Cornelissen a wonderful art shop near the British Museum in London, worth a visit if you are in the city. 105 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3RY. They also do mail order : http://www.cornelissen.com/ SOCIETIES
www.enamellers.org
The British Society of Enamellers http://www.guildofenamellers.org/ The Guild of Enamellers UK Hand Engravers Association http://www.handengravers.co.uk/ Association of Contemporary Jewellers http://www.acj.org.uk/ Link here to American Enamelist groups http://www.enamelistsociety.org/Resources/SubPages/Guilds&Orgs_US.html Link here to world wide societies via the American enamelists society : http://www.enamelistsociety.org/Resources/SubPages/Guilds&Orgs_NonUS.html Snag & Metalsmith Magsine USA http://www.snagmetalsmith.org/ Art Jewellery Forum artjewelryforum.org/articles-series Printmaking
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Please always use your own judgement and shop around.
