Flameworking:

Creating Glass Beads, Sculptures & Functional Objects.

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A How-To book. Full of pictures with all-color photos. 150 pages

From the Author: Learn to manipulate hotglass to make beautiful flameworked shapes and objects that you'll assemble into larger and sculptural and functional pieces. The techniques are the most accessible way to begin working with hotglass and are fully explained in this groundbreaking book. If you already have some experience, you'll find many new flameworking techniques with which to express your artistic vision. The detailed and easy to follow exercises, brought to life by sophisticated projects, will enable you to build a series of skills with each one you complete.

Table of Contents

Introduction

• Glass Basics
• Setting up your Studio
• Healing "Devit," Creases, and Cracks
• Color, Glorious Color!
• Glass Rods and Tubing

The Exercises

• Exercise 1: Making Gathers, Experimenting with Gravity, and Fusing Rods
• Exercise 2: Maing a Leaf and Variations
• Exercise 3: Embellishing
• Exercise 4: Making Marias and Transitional Shapes
• Exercise 5: Casing a Clear Rod with Color
• Exercise 6: Making a Heart Shape
• Exercise 7: Making a Fish Shape with Frit
• Exercise 8: Making a Flower
• Exercise 9: Making Icicles with Stripes
• Exercise 10: Working with Tubing
• Exercise 11: Making a Candleholder

The Projects

• Project 1: Versatile Plant Stakes
• Project 2: Flowers with leaves and Stems
• Project 3: Colorful Suncatcher
• Project 4: Kinetic Leaf Mobile
• Project 5: Candlestick with Transitional Shapes
• Project 6: Decorative Glass Candles
• Project 7: Beads as Glass Sculpture
• Project 8: Tall Candlestick with Fish Motif
• Project 9: Heart Wall Sculpture
• Project 10: Flower Candleholder
• Project 11: Fish Sculpture

Gallery

Glossary

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Index