Can someone tell me what this glass is please?

binty · January 26, 2012, 09:32:16 PM

So I was practising dots today, and I made some green beads and put purple raised dots on them. I have just taken them out of the kiln, and the dots are all gold. I like them, but I don't know what purple it was, can anyone help?

Josephine · January 26, 2012, 09:33:37 PM

Could it have been DH Aurae, transparent, looks a bit like amethyst?

Shirley · January 26, 2012, 09:54:56 PM

Sounds like aurae to me too

binty · January 26, 2012, 09:55:29 PM

I don't think I have any of this, the rods I have used today are labelled

Reichenbach pink lady
Chalcedony
Effetre purple
Effetre amethyst
Reichenbach Iris Violet

LampyLou · January 26, 2012, 10:17:23 PM

Could it have been the Effetre Purple? I have some and love it because it gives some lovely ranges of strippy colour. However, I work on a minor and oxycon and because I'm impatient I often work with a slightly reducing flame to get the extra heat. I often find that the purple then has a metalic sheen with a brown/gold tinge. I don't particularly like to effect so end up etching those beads to get rid of it. Can be handy occasionally though....!?!? $:-\$ $:-\$

Julia

awrylemming · January 26, 2012, 11:36:05 PM

Iris violet reduces, but I haven't got gold out of it, and it's not a transparent? Purple I usually get a kind of muddy silver grey when it reduces/reacts. Perhaps you've had a rod of aurae mixed in somehow?

tinker · January 26, 2012, 11:56:05 PM

What about new violet? I get some weird and wonderful reactions with this one from time to time especially if I work it too hot

SilverGems89 · January 27, 2012, 04:42:55 AM

my vote would be for the effetre purple too, mine sometimes gets a goldy coloured bit on the end of the rod after i have finished melting it...but i have no idea why and i've never had it do that on a bead!

MadelineBunyan · January 27, 2012, 09:25:06 AM

yep, I get a gold sheen sometimes on effetre purple

Lotti · January 27, 2012, 09:30:58 AM

Quote from: MadelineBunyan on January 27, 2012, 09:25:06 AM
yep, I get a gold sheen sometimes on effetre purple

And me, more often than I would like tbh, but sometimes it's fab!

LampyLou · January 27, 2012, 03:33:23 PM

Ice cream colours and SIS by Skarda Glass, on Flickr

Just so you can see... The front purple bead is Effetre Purple with the metalic sheen. As I said I'm not keen but then I intended to etch these when I made them so they will clean up nicely.

J x

MadelineBunyan · January 28, 2012, 09:00:59 AM

does the cillit bang not take it off if you dont want it there? although they would look lovely etched.