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Fundamentals of Borosilicate Glass Work
$98.00Date and Time: 09/10/2017 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Benjamin Revis, UI Scientific Glass Blower
Prerequisites: No experience necessary.
Learn how to manipulate solid borosilicate glass. Participants will make a pawn, basic marble, and an icicle pendant.
Fundamentals of Hollow Glass
$105.00Date and Time: 09/15/2019 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Benjamin Revis, UI’s Scientific Glass Blower
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn how to manipulate borosilicate glass tubing. Participants will learn to stretch, blow, and embellish tube glass.
New Class! Flamework Headpins with National Guest Instructor Patty Lakinsmith
$138.00Date and Time: 08/06/2017 from -
Capacity: 7
Instructor: Patty Lakinsmith
Prerequisites: Make Glass Beads or Advanced Beginner Experience
Are you ready to take our headpins to the next level? Or maybe you haven’t tried them and you need a few tips to get started. This in-depth full day workshop will have you making beautiful, well-matched intricate headpin elements perfect for earrings or focal pendants. You will start with simple designs and end with more advanced styles. Participants will learn heat control, how glass moves, and how to make two identically sized headpins sequentially, all while learning over half a dozen designs.
Next Steps in Hollow Glass Work: Tubular Triangle
$105.00Date and Time: 09/16/2018 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Benjamin Revis, UI’s Scientific Glass Blower
Prerequisites: Fundamentals of Hollow Glass on Sept. 9 or equivalent skills.
Now that you know how to manipulate a hollow tube into a sphere, here is your next step. Learn to gently manipulate hollow boro glass into a triangle. Add it to your percussion instrument collection or call everyone in for dinner.
Flower Power: Glass Flower Disks
$105.00Date and Time: 08/10/2019 from -
Capacity: 7
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Intro to Lampworking or equivalent skills.
Learn to make a disk with layers of colors. Spot heating will allow you to use tools to manipulate the glass into a flower. These beads are great for making pendants, earrings, and can be used as a clasp.