Blown Glass Handcrafted Jewelry

Featuring more than 100 instructive, full-color, close-up, step-by-step photos, this handsome book shows how to make more than 30 beautiful pieces of jewelry, using different-size colored glass beads and seed pearls. Each project is presented with a large color photo of the finished piece plus a list of materials. 110 color photos.

More than 350 illustrations, most in color, accompany a close-up look at the seminal influence of Louis Comfort Tiffany on his father's famous company, showcasing the designers extraordinary jewelry, enamels, blown glass, ceramics, desk accessories, and other objets d'art created during his tenure as the company's design director, as well as at luxury goods created in his own studio. 13,500 first printing.

Blown plate - Blown plate is one of many types of hand-blown glass. It is made from broad sheet glass by laboriously hand grinding and polishing both surfaces.

Handmade designer jewelry - Handmade designer jewelry is a piece of jewelry that is truly handcrafted, so that each piece is unique. Unlike machine-made jewelry, no two pieces of handmade jewelry, even of the same design, will be identical.

Crown glass (window) - Crown glass was an early type of window glass. In this process, glass was blown into a "crown" or hollow globe.

Cylinder blown sheet - Cylinder blown sheet is a type of hand-blown window glass. It is created with a similar process to broad sheet, but larger cylinders are produced by swinging the cylinder in a trench.

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Fused Glass - Fused Glass Fused glass - Fused glass is glass that was melted together in a kiln. Higgins glass - Higgins glass is collectable art glass fashioned by Michael and Frances Higgins, in Chicago, during the late 20th century. It is fused glass, sheets of glass with enamel decoration or glass decoration, placed atop each other and heated together in a kiln, often "slumped" into a particular mold. Fritography - Fritography is the art of use of crushed glass pieces ("frits") and colored glass powders ...

Art Glass Jewelry - Art Glass Jewelry Art glass - Art glass normally means the modern art glass movement in which individual artists working alone or with a few assistants to create works from molten glass in relatively small furnaces of a few hundred pounds of glass. It began in the early 1960s and showed continued growth through the end of the century. Glass art - Glass art includes the creation of stained glass and the making of glass shapes through glass blowing. It dates back to ...

Dichroic Glass - Dichroic Glass Dichroic prism - A dichroic prism is a prism that splits light into two beams of differing wavelength (colour). They are usually constructed of one or more glass prisms with dichroic optical coatings that selectively reflect or transmit light depending on the light's wavelength. Glass art - Glass art includes the creation of stained glass and the making of glass shapes through glass blowing. It dates back to prehistoric times, was extensively developed in Egypt and Assyria, brought to the ...

Through the Looking Glass - Through the Looking Glass Glass art - Glass art includes the creation of stained glass and the making of glass shapes through glass blowing. It dates back to prehistoric times, was extensively developed in Egypt and Assyria, brought to the fore by the Romans, and had its greatest triumphs in European cathedral building in stained glass rose-windows. Higgins glass - Higgins glass is collectable art glass fashioned by Michael and Frances Higgins, in Chicago, during the late 20th century. It is fused ...