{"id":474,"date":"2009-03-13T08:49:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T16:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/?p=474"},"modified":"2023-02-22T14:36:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T22:36:37","slug":"about-patina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/13\/about-patina\/","title":{"rendered":"About Patina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although patina tends to fade away over time, and I have not been able to find a reliable way to preserve it, I am still curious about what makes it happen. I have tried both kinds of carbon, new and old, and the results were the same. I did notice, though, that the more pieces I have in the box, the less patina I get. The amount of carbon, relative to the number of pieces in the box, seems to make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>In the past few days I have been emptying the box into a sieve while the carbon was still very hot. The colors were amazing. Here are the colors on fired copper right off a very hot box:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-full wp-image-475\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/t-hot-copper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/t-hot-copper.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Patina on copper\" width=\"415\" height=\"369\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-475\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you try it, be careful. Wear a mask and goggles and hold the box with insulating gloves. Take the box out with a kiln fork and lay it on an incombustible surface like concrete or bricks.<br \/>\n<!--subscribe2--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although patina tends to fade away over time, and I have not been able to find a reliable way to preserve it, I am still curious about what makes it happen. I have tried both kinds of carbon, new and old, and the results were the same. I did notice, though, that the more pieces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9306,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/9306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}