Wednesday, May 23, 2007

foil blossoms

on a recent trip to the corning museum of glass i saw this art nouveau vase...

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isn't the transparent colored glass over foil luminously lovely?

i finally got around to a first attempt at this technique.

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these two beads have a transparent cobalt blue core that was rolled in silver foil. then, at the top of each an encasing layer of grass green, below that pale transparent lavender with a transparent cobalt ruffle at the bottom.

wolfmother - 'white unicorn'

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