Glass Tips from Verrier

Credit: The Pottery Wheel There will be differences when firing on the floor of a kiln - the two important ones are working temperature and ...

What do you alter first – time or temperature – when tweaking schedules? The choice is largely dependent on what the objective is and the p...

There are many opinions on how glass cuts when cold.   Some report cutting outdoors in sub-freezing temperatures, others that only warm gla...

Credit: Janet Wager " My snowflakes are fragile. Will more glass make them stronger?” My experiments for the e-book Low Temperature ...

Ready for firing The project is to fire 6mm “balls” stacked 3 high onto a single sheet of clear glass without significant alteration to the ...

The following is an abstract of an article investigating the behaviour of glass in slumping (or as they term it - sagging).  They are using ...

A suggested temperature for a slump can only be a starting point and not all moulds will have slumping or draping temperatures given. The m...

I have been looking for a different way than flows or melts to mix colours and thought glass pressing might be a promising way to achieve ...

credit: timeanddate.com Credit: Shutterstock “What are the pros and cons on turning up the max temperature slightly Vs. a longer hold time”?...

“Can glass be put into dishwashers?” image credit: very.co.uk There are many recommendations to avoid placing fused glass into a dishwashe...

“Heat work” is a term applied to help understand how the glass reacts to various ways of applying of heat to the glass. In its simple form, ...

There are a variety of reasons that you might want to make a formed piece flat again for another kind of slump or drape.   There are a va...