Vitrigraph: The Art of Designing the Cane: $45
Have you wondered how people selling vitrigraph create beautiful millefiori designs?
Would you like to learn how to build intricate vitrigraph cane? In this e-book, you will learn how to go beyond circles and lines to create and assemble more intricate vitrigraph designs. The goal of this e-book is twofold:
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Learn to make design decisions to create patterns that work
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Learn the tools and techniques to create elements
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AND be exposed to custom pots, bottoms, and tools
72 4-color pages give you detailed examples of designing: a rose, a pinecone, and a ladybug . A bonus section on recapturing glass, utilizing hollows in unique ways, introduction to sliders, and Pot Melts. A resource file and project documentation tile are also included.
The Pot Melt Kit: 70$
Just the Pot Melt E-Book: 20$
This guide is included in the Pot Melt Kit. With a pot and 3 plates.
Pot Melts are a great way to utilize scrap, leftover glass and create your own glass. This guide will go over the basics of a great pot melt technique, give you the calculations for volume and firing schedules.
The Kit includes:
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a 2-part Pot
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three plates
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E-Book:
step-by-step guide with firing schedules, calculating volumes, tips and much more (hyperlinked pdf file)
What are Sliders
Sliders are created by piling glass and frit onto the kiln shelf and angling the shelf so the glass will slide down the shelves. DO NOT use paper as it will embed in the glass.
Fire on a kiln washed shelf as the glass will slide better. Sliders create custom sheets with great movement with increased hold times at the top of the fuse.
I created my metal pot to recapture and repurpose the large amounts of glass that are left on the sides and bottom of the pot. The one mm fiber I line the metal vitrigraph pots allow the recapturing the vitrigraph pot sides creates fantastic slider components.
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