William Bailey & Lisa Bailey

We are the sole creators of precious metal jewelry in which we set our enamels and precious/semi-precious stones. We have worked together as a husband-wife team in our Dripping Springs, Texas studio for twenty years. We hand pick our stones from within and outside the U.S. The cloisonne jewelry is our latest signature work that we perfected and stylized over the past five years. Our designs are abstract colorful shapes that are inspired by late 19th century modern art. We sketch our designs and then render them in vibrant enamels using the cloisonne technique.

The process of our enameled jewelry involves many steps. Generally, a nickel-sized piece takes about 8 hours from it’s beginning to completion. First, we shape the silver and texture it. We contour the silver cloison wires into a design and imbed it into a base coat of enamel. Then we separately apply each color in the different sections. Sometimes we include additive for texture, variety and uniqueness. We fire each generation of color in our kiln at 1500 degrees. Finally we finish each piece into a distinct and colorful work of art to be worn as an adornment.