Having noticed the ornate, textured patterning that seemed to cloth many 19th century household objects and walls and furniture, i have been making some such patterning of my own using silver and copper. My first approach was to use nitric acid etching on silver covered witha ptterned film of ink as a resist.
The pattern unfortunately became over etched and difficult to see, but on two test pieces was clear enough to make out. If the unintentional etching is not too severe it actually has an aged appearance which could be used anyway.
On the pieces which i was not going to use further or keep as test pieces i tried to roll them thinner and intended on using the back sides of them as an excercise in how thin metal can be to still etch deeply enough to see. I noticed, however, as the rough etchings were being rolled, that the grainy unintentional etching (which is shallower than those areas intended to etch) rolls smooth before the rest, making the before unclear pattern much clearer.
No comments:
Post a Comment