erm, 'interesting' request from a customer...

[lampworklover]

Someone has contacted me and asked if I could make her a heart shaped pendant which includes, wait for it..........horse (and / or dog) HAIR 

My initial reaction was to say that whilst it is sometimes possible to include 'extras' in limited quantities in glass, the melting temperature of glass would vapourise hair in a nanosecond.

...........unless I'm missing something obvious? LOL

[SilverGems89]

hmmmm unless there are new rare breeds of flame retardant horses and dogs your right the hair would burn instantly 

[garishglobes]

Yup    But that's no reason not to include it... it just won't be seen

Or you could add it on afterwards. If you look at Pipyr's beast tutorial for example, the beasts have a hole poked in for hair glued in afterwards as a tail. Could be adapted??

[Josephine]

i've seen someone on one of the US forums doing beads with hair in . Maybe it is a hollow bead with hair poked in the holes and then capped as made up into a pendant. I didn't pay much attention as i thought they were a bit yukky. Will see if i can find a link for you.

[Josephine]

Yes I was right, a hollow stuffed with hair.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/47346706/keepsake-pandora-troll-biagia-bhb-bead

[Billie]

Takes all sorts 

[Lush!]

Check out this website that I came across a while ago www.equihearts.co.uk they do a heart including hair for £69!  And look at the 'how they're made' page - it does say that the hair vapourises, "capturing the spirit" of the horse!

[lampworklover]

I'm astonished!! I had wondered about including them in hollow, but thought it might look too gross for words!

Thanks for the links.....I might need to have a practice, just don't tell my dogs why I'm chopping chunks off them 

[Mary]

Or a vessel? There is no real need to have the hair visible, if you used opaques or a dark colour, unless that's what your customer wants. I have heard of vessels holding locks of baby hair, or a few ashes, just a keepsake that nobody knows what it is unless you tell them.

[Kaz]

I feel sick

[Vicki]

I feel sick

ditto 

[glassworks]

not at all like the "interesting" requests i seem to get!.. RFLMAO over here... 

[lampworklover]

not at all like the "interesting" requests i seem to get!.. RFLMAO over here... 

oh, do tell 

[flowerjasper]

i have a book "knitting with dog hair"....am sure it would work with horse hair 

[Redhotsal]

Plenty of horse hair in old sofas and even mixed into the lime plaster in old walls. Why not in beads too!?