Many crafts, such as macramé or fabric painting, enjoy brief periods of revival. Enamelling was quite active in South Africa in the 1970’s when a number of suppliers stocked the powders and small stove-top kilns, as well as small “how-to-do-it” booklets. Thereafter the craft was kept alive mainly by a few jewellers who imported their own materials and equipment, and by jewellery departments at certain tertiary institutions such as Stellenbosch University. Here the work of Dieter Dill and Errico Cassar are worthy of special mention. Of the individual enamellers Valerie Twentyman-Jones is known not only for her work on commissioned jewellery but also for containers and decorative panels, as well as more conceptual sculptural pieces. She has been represented at major international exhibitions.

While enamelling on any larger scale is rare in South Africa, the work of Sister Johanna Senn in the Catholic Church in Constantia, Cape, is notable. Sister Johanna is based at Mariannhill, Natal. The cross over the altar was made around 1978 using a cloisonné technique, and the 12 stations of the cross followed 10 years later.