DragonJools

This is a bucket-list item. If you work glass, hot, warm or cold - at least once in your life you should attend this. Even better - would be...

Here's a kind of fun little trick for photographing beads outside in bright sunshine - always good for showing them off, but keepi...

Just a little eye-candy tonight. I don't get much play-time on the torch these days - heck - I don't get much time on the torch at a...

Don't you just hate it when you spend a lot of time on a bead, and then, after it is out of the kiln, something dumb happens like you ...

 Caribbean Sea is a layered colour, a transparent core with an opaque outer layer. The result is a lovely, streaky look when worked. The m...

Just a quick note - find this glass and buy all of it that you can! This is Ebony and Ivory, and appears to be layered rods of ivory and...

In the past - I've been asked about "something about using a flowerpot to melt glass ... . " This is the technique. The calc...

And in other glassy news - the thinnest sheet of glass ever made - by accident, of course - was photographed to reveal the arrangement of t...

I've said this before. Glass at room temperature is a solid. It shares some interesting characteristics with fluids, but it's a soli...

Just in case you thought silver in beads was something new ... Analysis of Ancient Beads from Germany dating from 30 - 60 AD, shows a layer...

Recently - I got a phone call from someone who has just set up a her own home studio. Naturally - she is enjoying the freedom to torch when ...

This is an absolutely delightful video of production glass blowing.  From another time. When glass blowers lit their cigarettes off the glas...

How It's Made - a Canadian "reality" show - is one of the best things on television! Here, they show millefiore paperweights...

Cookie Dough, as I mentioned a few days ago, looks a bit greenish, and Hazelnut Mousse more creamy. On the left, the Mousse, and on the ri...

CiM 712, Hazelnut Mousse, a warm, pale cafe au lait colour - almost an ivory, but a little warmer than the colour (from Effetre) that we hav...

CiM 711 Cookie dough - a taupey beige colour, with a hint of green to it. Two self coloured beads. Just a hint of green. A strange colour ...

CiM 521 Eventide is a nice, dark, transparent grey. Transparent grey is generally a lovely colour to work with - and this is no exception. ...

CiM 713 - Nutmeg - is an opaque peach colour - appears to be similar to Coral - it goes dark grey when hot. On the left, self coloured bea...

CiM 442 - Aloe Juice. And Juicy Aloe is exactly what it looks like. A lovely medium transparent green that is not too yellow - a peridot gre...

Here's another tool that I've had kicking around for years - and I finally figured out what to do with it. A shout out goes to Deb M...