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Using Gold and Silver in Glass Beads

Using Gold and Silver in Glass Beads

June 19, 2009 | by | No Comments

Most people who know my work think that I only work in dichroic glass because I have done a lot of dichroic over the past 10 years, but I also use gold and silver in my glass beads.  Using gold and silver in or on your glass beads is not necessarily easier, but you can get some very interesting effects with these precious metals and a lot of bling. The first glass and gold beads were produced by the Romans to produce gold looking beads for the folks who could not afford solid gold beads.  They did this by blowing
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Categories: 104 COE Glass Review, Flameworking 104 Glass, Lampworking, lampworking techniques, and Silver Glass Colors.
Tips about Dichroic Glass

Tips about Dichroic Glass

June 12, 2009 | by | No Comments

In this post, I want to share some tips about dichroic glass.  Dichroic glass is a glass that has had multiple thin layers of tiny crystals applied to it in a vacuum chamber.  This mysterious crystalline coating was original developed for eye gear worn by astronauts when the U.S. was hot and heavy into the race for space.  The coating that was developed turned out to have a number of applications unrelated to the space race and one of them turned out to be dichroic glass. What I want to discuss here is what I call the water color effect
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Categories: 104 COE Glass Review, Flameworking 104 Glass, Lampworking, and lampworking techniques.