Hi
Does anyone have experience of glass fusing Millefiori flowers to form glass cabochons? ??? I want to start making glasss cabachon/silver rings. Any advice would be welcome!
Ange ;D
Hi Angela, do you mean fusing them together or using just a couple as features on another piece of glass? As long as the glass is the same coe it shouldn't be a problem but I know some millefiori go fuzzy and bubble like crazy
Most commercial millefiori is COE 104, so make sure you get some flat glass of that coe. martin tuffnell stocks some, and hobbyland does a lot:
http://www.hobbyland.it/eng/rep/20/210/
Yep want to fuse several together, using a clear base would be good, but need some advice on firing too. Quite new to glass fusing, not sure how well these fuse, they seem a little delicate to me! :-\
I've fused 1cm pieces of 104COE glass rod onto 104 flat glass to form pictures. I would think doing the same with millefiore would be the same. Here's an example,
(http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1426/5604171/12685369/227958716.jpg)
I used Morreti rods for this fish. It was a trial piece. I would say make sure all the space is filled and if there is any sort of picture with a background, fill in the background too with clear or whatever. If it's just cabochons, here's another example
(http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1426/5604171/11160190/320491737.jpg)
Hi Pat
thanks for tip about spacing I haven't thought of that, using the rods must be very similar, with that said I'm just going to have to go for it! Will let you know how things turn out ::)
cheers ;D
Ange
Hi Ange
I've done a few pieces like that. Plain colour backing, with millefiori then fused to the top. Sorry for the rubbish photo!
(http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa275/beccic/Silver%20Work%20FB/thlongmillefpendant.jpg)
Have fun!
Becci
x
Quote from: julieHB on February 20, 2009, 08:18:01 PM
Most commercial millefiori is COE 104, so make sure you get some flat glass of that coe. martin tuffnell stocks some, and hobbyland does a lot:
http://www.hobbyland.it/eng/rep/20/210/
Julie thanks for this link, I have been looking for COE 104 flat glass for the same reason!
Angie I did some experiments for part of a uni project, I will post a pic if I can find!
Hi,
I ordered some from this american website, delivery was quick, cheap and COE 90. Worked very well with bulls eye glass. Would recomend the site.
http://www.rockymountainglasscrafts.com/servlet/the-FUSING%2C-SLUMPING-KILNWORK-cln-90-COE-Glass%2C-Frit%2C-Inclusions/Categories
Simon
Oh wow, even better, I have mainly bullseye, so getting COE 90 murrini makes more sense than the other way round
Thanks Simon, I will check that out,
Thanks for the photo Becci ::) the plain backing does help with the colour combo. Thanks for website Simon, love the blue ones!
Cheers ;D
Ange
Your welcome. Heres one of the results my girl friend got.
(http://www.cs-creations.co.uk/catalogue/images/large/P6637.JPG)
Nice! Got mine melting away as we speak! :) Fingers crossed. Will let you know how they turn out ::)
Here is my first attempt! ;D
(http://www.arkcontemporarydesigns.co.uk/coursegallery/album/glasswork/glass1.JPG)
(http://www.arkcontemporarydesigns.co.uk/coursegallery/album/glasswork/glass2.JPG)
(http://www.arkcontemporarydesigns.co.uk/coursegallery/album/glasswork/glass3.JPG)
What do ya think? ???
Ange
They are great ;D
Oooh, they're great!!
i like!!!!
They're super. :D
How did you get those bubbles in the first, green one?
I'm guessing seed beads...
Marg x
Oh wow Angela, they're fab first attempts! Really like the green ones, and the little bubbles. ;D
HP x
Hi guys
thanks for the comments, the trick to the little bubbles is....... artifact! ::)
The bubble fairy put them there! ;D
Ange
Ange I would say that they are a roaring success great work there.
can I ask - did you put the murrini under or over the top layer?
Uh, sorry to revive an old post, but this thread came up in Google so it's likely that people besides myself are still viewing it. I just wanted to mention that glacial art glass sells COE 90 murrine (http://www.glacialartglass.com). They are very different from the other type mentioned above.