combine my love of glass and "anything in miniature" to create tiny, individual worlds through the rapidly growing art of glass bead making. I use a technique called "lampworking" to produce hand-crafted glass beads by winding hot glass around thin stainless steel rods.
The glass, from Murano, Italy, is the same as that used to produce the renown Venetian glass beads, traded and collected world-wide for more than 1200 years. My most intricate designs depict underwater scenes, complete with tiny fish. Known as "aquarium" beads, each individual bead incorporates more than a dozen colors of glass, with the rods being melted, stretched, twisted and wound to create the design entirely from glass |
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