Cloisonne Lapel Pin Pricing

Whether launching a new product, reinforcing your brand image or awarding employees, cloisonne lapel pins make an impressive statement. They also pair perfectly with presentation boxes, customized card stock, cards or plastic presentation cases to further enhance the presentation.

How Are Custom Cloisonne or Hard Enamel Pins Made?

Cloisonne pins start with the same basic steps as die struck lapel pins or soft enamel lapel pins.

• We start by making a custom mold and stamping your design impression into sheets or strips of the base metal . This process is called "die striking".
• We then use a punch to separate the stamped impressions from the base metal sheet.
• The pieces are tumbled to remove burrs and quickly hand polished and buffed to ensure good adherence for the cloisonne colorfills.
• The die struck pin pieces are then laid out on sheets and the recessed areas are then filled with powdery glass-like enamel paint past the height of the metal.
• Each color is filled separately and fired in a kiln at 1700 degrees.
• Once cured, the pins are hand polished on a wet grinding stone until the paint is flush with the metal.
• Then the next color is added and the firing, curing, and hand polishing process is repeated until all the colors are added.
• Once fully colored, the pins are plated, packed and shipped!

This labor intensive process of adding the colors one by one and hand polishing is what gives each cloisonne pin a hard, glossy finish that simulates jewel tones.