Category: Index of Articles
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Quick Tip: Iridescent Squares
Transform a single sheet of Rainbow Iridescent glass into shimmering mosaic design. The Details Start with a 3 mm sheet of a saturated transparent color (or black) with a Rainbow…
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Quick Tip: Kilncarved Billet
Create a textured block of glass using ceramic fiber paper, a billet, and the right amount of heat! Design with Texture In the kiln, the billet conforms to your fiber…
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Quick Tip: Kilncast and Slumped Bowl
Get experience in volume calculation, frit tinting, and more as you create a kilncast disc from a frit and powder mixture, coldwork the edges, and slump it into a graceful…
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Quick Tip: Little Wisp Bowls
Wisps of White and Clear, let the color shine through. Create your own streaky color palette. Layer Clear and White Streaky sheet glass over transparent tint glass styles. Slump in…
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Quick Tip: Making a Chevron Design
Making this chevron plate is a snap with Cascade sheet glass. Steps Tip Materials
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Quick Tip: On the Edge with Transparents
Transparents transform with on-edge strip construction. Cut 3 mm sheet glass into 1 cm wide strips, turn those on edge, and—presto!—color saturation increases. In the pairings below, notice how the…
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Quick Tip: Multitasking Molds
There is more than meets the eye with some slumping molds. They can certainly be used to form pieces that utilize the entire surface, but consider the options when slumping…
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Quick Tip: Opaline Overlays
Opaline sheet glass. Amazing on its own; plays nicely with others. As in its a great tool to expand your color palette in kilnforming, creating new colors with distinct properties.…
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Quick Tip: Put a Ring on It
Explore the possibilities of a palette of green rings capped with Opaline! As an overlay, Opaline scatters light for a dramatic impact on base colors. Note the blue hue it…
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Quick Tip: Powder Power
Want to minimize the look of bubbles in fused pieces? This technique used in kilnforming circles for many years has also worked well for us. Add a light application of…
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Quick Tip: Petrified Wood
Petrified Wood is Bullseye’s magical unicorn streaky. Its unique combination of glasses results in dramatic internal reactions at full-fuse temperatures. Here are two ideas for making this glass sing. Copper…
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Quick Tip: Raise the Bar on Your Soap Dish
Add an accent color and functionality to a soap dish with fusible rods. We paired Robin’s Egg Blue Opalescent with Driftwood Gray rod, but you could use any combination. Steps…