Hi All
I keep seeing Boro beads with the affect shown here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/57843174/lampwork-glass-boro-beads-handmade-by?ref=sr_gallery_15&ga_search_query=lampwork+beads&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=19&order=&includes[0]=tags&includes[1]=title
ie: it looks as though frit has been applied and then somehow elongated across the bead. It's this stretched look that I want to achieve (every time I use frit I just end up with round blobs on the bead).
Is it possible to get this effect with 104? And if so, what would I need to do? I'm wondering if it's the method of encasing that does it - like when you make a stripy bead?
I still know so little and I've been at this a year now!
Thank you
Helen
I would build a thin disc bead, add the frit to the rim of the disc, layer over the frit with generous swipe of clear and then melt the whole lot down slowly to make fritty stripes as the disc collapses down to become a tyre shape.
Thanks Jo, will give it a whirl later on x
Wow those are some gorgeous colours she has there. ;D
They certainly are ;D
could you do something with the mango beads tutorial but be very hap hazard rather than precise with the placing of dots ???
Make a thin core.
Add coloured dots.
Add clear dots over the coloured, melt in, and repeat until desired size / effect.
Tidy up with clear.
If using frit:
Make a small clear bead.
Roll outer edge only in frit.
Dot / run clear over the frit, melt in and repeat adding clear to the circumference.
Use strong colours. Better to place contrasting coloured dots over each other for visibility.
Quote from: Jolene on October 02, 2010, 10:56:29 AM
I would build a thin disc bead, add the frit to the rim of the disc, layer over the frit with generous swipe of clear and then melt the whole lot down slowly to make fritty stripes as the disc collapses down to become a tyre shape.
i got a similar effect doing this with beady sams faux boro frit, unfortunately it cracked later so i dont have a pic. must make more