Do you know what these are? They are called glass canes and are used in making glass beads and more. Aren't they just beautiful?
What is caneworking?
Caneworking is a glassblowing technique that is used to add intricate patterns and stripes to vessels or other blown glass objects. Cane refers to rods of glass with color; these rods can be simple, containing a single color, or they can be complex and contain many strands of multiple colors in pattern.
Let's take a look at what can be done with these glass canes!
Meet Marcy and take a look at what she can do!
(click on photo above to see some of Marcy's work!)
Mary's work:
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Jill's Work!
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Take some time to look around at the shops and sites I've shown and try doing a search on the Internet to see what else can be done and some more of the beautiful canes used to make beads.
Have a great day!
RWS
http://www.jillsymons.com/
3 comments:
Wonderful examples of lampwork. The little owl Marcy has reminded me of a friend. :)
I would love to be able to do lampwork, but I guess I'll just enjoy the work of others.
I love these...reminds me of the old milliflori (sp?) paperweights...what amazing artists these people are!
I loooove lampwork. Those bleeding hearts are just amazing!
Marcy, Mary and Jill all do fabulous work!
Very very cool, great shops.
Thanks Runs :)
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