If enamel continues to adorn watch dials today, it’s all thanks to women. “They are the ones who saved enameling,” said Anita Porchet, arguably the best-known and most respected enamelist today. While ...

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For years, the prevailing view among the high-end watch companies that produce enamel timepieces has been that there are too few qualified artisans—the craft hasn’t been formally taught in Switzerland ...

People think of enamel as a type of paint – which it may once have been – but recently it is more of a descriptive term used in a general manner by many manufacturers to describe a paint that dries ...

Although specimens of Iranian enamel works dating back to the 10th century AH (after hegira) and the Safavid era have been found, experts believe it has a more ancient history. Enameling originated in ...

Nourollah Abdollahi also said that given the planning and with cooperation of Isfahan Enamel Association, the exhibition with a focus on enamel work was inaugurated with presence of 50 outstanding ...