Archive for ‘Helpful Tips’
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About Lampwork Glass Beads
Friday, August 15th, 2008
Popular methods of making art glass jewelry include lamp work and fused glass. Lamp work, usually used to make beads, involves melting and shaping glass with a torch. The fused glass method involves firing a piece of glass at three different ranges of temperature to create relief, depth and shape.
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About Glass
Friday, August 15th, 2008
Glass is a hard material, normally fragile and transparent as used commonly in our daily life. It is composed mainly of sand or silica and an alkali, soda ash or limestone (calcium carbonate or dolomite).
These materials at high temperature are in a molten viscous state and will fuse together. They are cooled rapidly to form [...]