More on enamelling
September 24th 2007 20:24
Our trip from Kidderminster to Attleborough today went via Corby. We’d been looking on the Net last night in the pub (while a quizmaster with a difficult-to-control giggle read out his questions) at places where enamel materials are sold, and Corby was on the way home.
From the website it looked like a large shop we could browse around in. We finally discovered the place in the midst of one of those industrial estates that seem to be all the rage here in the UK. It was almost overlookable, and seemed closed. Nope, it was open, and consisted of two smallish rooms: an office and a warehouse. There may have been another even smaller room to one side.
The proprietor, whose name I’ve forgotten I’m afraid, knew the woman who’d taken us through the basics of enammelling the weekend before last, and was very friendly and helpful. My wife finished up picking her way through a pile of bits and pieces, and came away with plenty to get us started when we go back to NZ, plus a book and a folder of notes.
We still have to think about where to get the kiln, whether to buy one here that we have to ship home, or see if we can get one in NZ. At the moment that hasn’t proved very likely from our research on the Net, but maybe we just haven’t looked in the right places yet.
From the website it looked like a large shop we could browse around in. We finally discovered the place in the midst of one of those industrial estates that seem to be all the rage here in the UK. It was almost overlookable, and seemed closed. Nope, it was open, and consisted of two smallish rooms: an office and a warehouse. There may have been another even smaller room to one side.
The proprietor, whose name I’ve forgotten I’m afraid, knew the woman who’d taken us through the basics of enammelling the weekend before last, and was very friendly and helpful. My wife finished up picking her way through a pile of bits and pieces, and came away with plenty to get us started when we go back to NZ, plus a book and a folder of notes.
We still have to think about where to get the kiln, whether to buy one here that we have to ship home, or see if we can get one in NZ. At the moment that hasn’t proved very likely from our research on the Net, but maybe we just haven’t looked in the right places yet.
An example of an enamelled box, from Hampton Court Palace
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Comment by katyzzz
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Is it just curiosity, just the love of 'all things art' or something else, because I thought you were on holidays.
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