Glass - Flameworked

Creating Pate de Verre Forms

After watching a demo on how to make glass sculptural work from tiny pieces of fractured glass (pate de verre), students will make their own 6" glass sculptural form. Glass will be colored with permanent glass powders and embellished with other glass frit, stringer, confetti, etc. Students will arrange to pick up their finished fused pieces at the Schack the following week or pay to have the work shipped to their homes.

This class is part of the NW Designer Craftsman Symposium and no discount codes may be used for registration. Thank you.

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Flame-working to Fusing Crossover

Combine flame-working and glass fusing to bring your work to a new level. Learn to make design elements in the torch that will produce fused glass that really stands out. After
warming up with demos in the flame studio, students will "cross-over" to the warm shop, designing and firing projects using flame-worked elements.

This class is part of the NW Designer Craftsman Symposium and no discount codes may be used for registration. Thank you.

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Glass Jewelry: Flora & Fauna

This class is a basic introduction to working with color borosilicate glass. How to use a punty, making glass loops, and some sculpting would be covered.

On the last day of class students would assemble their glass pieces into jewelry with earring hoops and pendant chains.

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Intro to Flameworking in Borosilicate-Simple Ornaments

Explore the basics of lampworking with clear borosilicate glass. Learn how to melt glass rods with a bench-mounted torch and then manipulate the molten gather on the end of the rod with tools to create simple round and flattened shapes, and even twisted icicles, all of which we will turn into small hanging ornaments. 

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Lampwork Glass Beadmaking

If you're fascinated by baubles, bangles, and beads, this one day class is for you. You will make many glass beads as you learn the basic skills of heating Moretti (soft) glass, applying it to a mandrel, and shaping it with tools.

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Lampworking: Make a Pipe

This class is a one day workshop of practicing working with hollow glass to make a functional pipe.

Students will learn how to use blow tubes, weld glass, use a punty, and how to shape hollow glass.

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Lampworking: Miniature Potted Plant

This class is a fun way for students to learn to sculpt glass color to turn it into their favorite potted plant.

Students will learn how to weld glass color together, how to shape glass, and how to determine when glass is hot enough to do these things.

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Lampworking: Vases

This class is an introduction to working hollow borosilicate glass to form simply elegant vases.

Students will learn how to weld a blowtube to a larger glass tube, how to cut glass in the flame, and how to shape hollow glass.

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