At the end, we did a little buffing to bring out some of the highlights, but otherwise didn’t process the pieces at all. The metal was annealed prior to rolling, and we did sandwich the metal and textures between manila folder paper prior to rolling. The textures were laser engraved on 110lb / 300gsm heavyweight cardstock.
Buffing a little at the end to bring out highlightsįor materials, I used 24 gauge copper sheet, and Lisa used 26 gauge copper.Affixing the copper to the patterns with painters tape.Lisa is working on a graduate degree in metalsmithing and digital fabrication, and was excited to try out laser cut textures! We had a fun evening in her studio catching up, rolling metal, and giving my arm a workout! I took an enameling class from her several years ago, and I remembered she had a lovely Durston rolling mill in her studio. Now, I don’t have a rolling mill, so I reached out to Lisa Dienst-Thomas of Lisa’s Pieces. Thank you to Lisa Dienst-Thomas of Lisa’s Pieces for being game to experiment! Various textured paper leave can their mark, and so can laser engraved paper. People use lace, netting, leaves…pretty much anything thin and dry enough that is flexible enough to roll next to a sheet of metal will work. The even pressure of the mill compresses and stretches the metal, allowing patterns to impress upon it. You can use a lot of different things to get texture on metal by compressing it through a rolling mill. I’ve been getting the itch to do more metal work and enameling, and thought creating my own laser engraved textures for the metal would be a fun start! Our texture experiments for the night! Some used, some not.
Most people have seen those laser engraved rolling pins to create designs on rolled out cookies did you know that you can do the with metal too? Jewelers can texture metal for distinctive looks using rolling mills.
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