Saturday, 19 July 2008
Dichroic Glass Jewellery from Dichroic Designs of Shaker Heights!
One of our favourite websites is Dichroic Designs of Shaker Heights , jam packed with every kind of dichroic glass type of jewellery possible!
Owner Mimi Testen, is like a talent scout-searching out the best designs from glass artists around the world. How international!
There is a newsletter you can sign up for and you can also get a wholesale account-so get stocking up!
Friday, 18 July 2008
Purple Grapes Dichroic Glass Necklace
Lis Kidder. one of the best known dichroic glass artists, has a fab range of dichroic glass jewellery with probably the most innovative use of findings around.
Each piece is a contemporary classic! Check out her amazing site now!
Wholesale dichroic glass stunning new designs!
Glass Kanvas, one of our favourite dichroic glass designers is offering dichroic glass jewellery at wholesale prices! Check out his ebay shop for details and make sure you add the shop to your favourites as new lines are added everyday!
Thursday, 3 January 2008
Dichroic Glass-How, where,?
If you google dichroic glass you'll get the same copy and pasted description of the origins of the glass. Basically...to cut out alot of very dry explainations...It was invented by NASA for use on the visors of astronaunts. One of the main properties of dichroic glass is it's ability to handle light. It can allow light though it on one side and block it coming back through from the other side...that's a very dull way of saying it can make things look 'shimmery'. The glass can also keep the colours bonded to it by metal oxide at high temps...that's a very dull way of saying it looks pretty.
To dichroic fused glass artists the material offers a world of creativity...mainly used for jewellery the glass can be very addictive to the magpie in us all!
There are many ways to use dichroic glass in glass fusing...here's a simple online tutorial
There are a great many glass artists specialising in dichroic glass...of many skill levels.
If you shopping around for dichroic glass jewellery online try ebay, etsy or try one of the many website dedicated to dichroic glass pendants and other type of jewellery
Here are a few notible ebay shops
..and here are a few of my favourite dichroic glass jewellery websites
http://www.frizzygirl.co.uk/
If you're looking to start glass fusing and are based in the EU try http://www.warm-glass.co.uk/ they're packed to the rafters with resources and having dealt with them before they're very knowledgable! If you're in the US try http://www.warmglass.com/ or http://www.delphiglass.com/, both are excellent places to start!
I'll be adding to this site with lots of dichroic glass and glass fusing resources weekly-check back soon.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)