{"id":4,"date":"2013-06-19T20:50:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T20:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2022-08-11T19:10:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T19:10:19","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_106\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/about\/mercjane\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-106\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MercJane.jpg\" alt=\"MercJane\" width=\"250\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MercJane.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MercJane-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\">Photo Courtesy of Mercury Jane<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Michelle&#8217;s chosen medium is Vitreous Enamel.\u00a0 Enameling is fusing &#8220;glass powder&#8221; to metal, in her case either copper or fine silver, at a high temperature.\u00a0\u00a0 She uses a kiln or torch and fires up to 1500 degrees.\u00a0 All of her metal has to be first cut and hand formed before enameling.\u00a0 They say enameling takes an hour to learn and a life time to master.\u00a0 This is SO true.\u00a0 Enameling has been likened to painting with sand.\u00a0 But she has fallen in love with the colors that can be achieved with multiple layers and firings.\u00a0 The work in her studio has lead to the development of proprietary blends and colorways.\u00a0 Some of these blends can take as many as 10 firings to achieve.\u00a0 Our hope is that you enjoy the color as much as we do.\u00a0 But don&#8217;t be surprised to find metal designs showing up too as she expand her skills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nMy alter ego is:<a href=\"https:\/\/stitchitized.com\">Stitchitized Patches<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle&#8217;s chosen medium is Vitreous Enamel.\u00a0 Enameling is fusing &#8220;glass powder&#8221; to metal, in her case either copper or fine silver, at a high temperature.\u00a0\u00a0 She uses a kiln or torch and fires up to 1500 degrees.\u00a0 All of her metal has to be first cut and hand formed before enameling.\u00a0 They say enameling takes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}