It will be continually updated with information relevant to the contemporary enameler, and will be a most useful addition to the printed version.
The website has many useful features for the enamelling community in place already and more are planned e.g. a forum; live chat; a classified ads section where folks can post free classified ads; 'Ask the Experts' (includes posted Q's & A's); a streaming enameling video featuring English enamelist Jane Short; current issue description; enameling, jewelry and metalworking suppliers list; news; workshops, guild and school listings; enamel museum information; FAQ; recommended media (which includes a goodly-sized book reference, videos and magazines); and web links to artists and suppliers.
The site is supported by a search feature, on-line ordering of subscriptions, and is easily surfed using the navigation bar on the left side.
In 1981 Tom Ellis, Editor of Glass on Metal, took a workshop with Bill Helwig at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Helwig informed the class about a new publication formulated specifically for enamelers. It would be called Glass on Metal.
The publication would act as a unifying thread among enamelers, dispersing information that most enamelers were in need of and would benefit from. The science behind the process would be explained, with the intent that this information would help enamelers to understand the "whys" of their successes and failures.
Glass on Metal would show us our past, present and future. It would be our forum to express ourselves and to hear of others' experiences within this medium. It would excite us with works currently being created, or made hundreds or even thousands of years ago.
Over the years, and after 115 issues, it has done all of this and more. Glass on Metal has become the single largest compendium of information ever compiled on enameling on metal.
Many talented and knowledgeable experts in the field have given themselves to this publication.
Go to "Glass on Metal" website
Glass on Metal is a registered trademark of Thompson Enamel Inc.