Sunday, March 30, 2008

I want...

I want some boro glass beads. I'm not exactly sure what that is... but from what I understand its about the best quality glass for handmade lampwork beads. These ones above are beautiful.. only prob is there are no sets in the bunch... so it would be one bead per piece of jewellery. But it could be a good starting point.

3 comments:

robyn said...

those are really pretty

have you thought of taking a glass blowing class?

there are some amazing courses here but Im not sure about Perth. Then you could make your own beads!!

robyn said...

missing your posts...

where did you dissapear to?

Anonymous said...

Hiya Jasmin, as a lampworker, I thought that I might just add that Boro isnt the best glass for lampwork beads, it is just another line of glass that can be used. It is classed as a "hard" glass and requires a higher temperature to melt (think of a pyrex jug and you have boro), where as Effetre glass is used just as much if not more and it is classed as a "soft" glass and doesnt require huge temperature.