Lampwork Glass Beads
January 3rd, 2009 WendyLee
Well over the holidays I have been playing on the torch again. It has been a long time since I have done any lampworking and it was nice to get back into it.
Before Christmas I ordered a bit of glass to put aside and play with over these christmas holidays. I ordered the new limited edition colours from Vetrofond with really funky names like
*Frog Swamp
*Jungle Twilight
*HoneyCrunch
*Bloody Mary
*Painted Desert
Thats to name just a few. They are very interesting glasses to play with as they seem to be made up of a mix of glass and some have silver in them such as the Fossil. When you melt these glasses in the flame you get a nice swirly streaky outcome.
The Cool Colours from Morretti have the same funky names with also the same cool outcomes of swirls and streaks.
*American Beauty
*Venetian Sunrise
*Cherry Shake
*Hawaiin Clay
The names are so descriptive in themselves. I didn’t make anything technically challenging or mindblowing I just made plain beads as I wanted to see what the glass would do by itself before I started to add other colours or garnishes to it. I always do this when I get a batch of new glass, I will make plain old beads with it by itself first, It also helps me to see how fussy a colour will be, whether I need to do anything special to it whilst working with it.
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Fused Dichroic Glass pendants with 22kt gold dragonfly decals fused to the glass.
