Other line designs

A line design can also be achieved by drawing a design on a fired enameled piece with gum or squeegee oil (a thick oil used in silk screen printing) and then dusting an opaque enamel on the piece and refiring it. The enamel will adhere only to the gum or oil lines and will shake off the rest of the surface, leaving enameled lines.

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A sgraffito design is again used against different color enamels. Be sure to blow away any enamel particles that get in the way of the sgraffito lines.

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Apply stencils to enamels in much the same way as you do to ceramic pieces.

An embossed line is often an interesting variation of texture on an enameled piece and can be produced by the wet charge method. A hard or high firing wet enamel is pushed into lines, with the enamel heaped high to about 1/16 of an inch. The piece is fired and withdrawn before the enameled lines have completely melted. The result is an embossed or raised design on a flat surface.

A novel approach to a linear design can be executed with a few pieces of wet string. Arrange the string in a design on a fired coat of enamel and dust a contrasting enamel over the entire surface. Then remove the string, refire, and a line design remains. This technique results in a free, loose type of design which can be very expressive.

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