Blown Vessel(s) Now on Etsy!

It has been almost a year since our last blown vessel was sold on our Etsy store, and we are ready to restock! One is up right now and the rest will soon be.

We love these wee hand blown vessels for they are hollow inside. Each comes with a cork so you may put in your favorite perfume or essential oil, add a chain and you have a beautiful pendant. All of our vessels contain silver glass so expect lots of wonderful colors (from the striking silver glass) and/or shimmering iridescence (from the reducing silver glass).

Gaffer Chalcedony

The latest striking silver glass hype is all about a COE 96 glass from Gaffer in Auckland, New Zealand, called G109 Chalcedony. Of-course I had to have some!

If you are used to COE 104 glass, you will find Gaffer quite a bit stiffer. The workability of the glass is more like Bullseye, which is COE 90. I only had a chance to make a few test beads and found that shaping the ends with a stiff glass was quite challenging! As you can see, I had to dust off my lil' bead stand for the photography for my bicone didn't stand on either end!!! ;-)

The range of colors is quite astounding! Depending on how you work the glass (and I need to explore this much further), colors from soft pastels to dark jewel tones bloom!




Perhaps it's time to dust off all the COE 96 glass - Reichenbach, Uroboros, Zimmerman and Caliente!