Fused Glass

 The end of term again, stained & fused glass are both totally addictive. The downside is the precision needed in cutting so the bits fit, but I'm improving.

Dichroic glass is the most amazing stuff, micro-layers of metal or oxides, developed by NASA. The results are variable, totally unpredictable, but always beautifully coloured and shimmery. The colour you see looking at it is totally different from the colour looking through it. The Romans sort of had it, not the electro-vapour coated one we have, but the two different colour stuff.

This one's an experimental window-hanging, multiple layers of glass, the top layer tacked on rather than fused in. The sparkly fish are dichroic glass.