Glass Tips from Verrier

  The cracks around the wire imbedded in the glass in the above image are not incompatibility cracks. They do not surround the square piec...

Although there are other ways to combine wire with glass, one popular method involves fusing wire inside the glass. This technique generally...

Having mentioned the characteristics needed of the wires for inclusion, this is a description of the good and bad points of some common wire...

You can use high temperature wire for screen melts. This is variously described as Kanthal or nichrome wire.  It is the same kind of wi...

Wire and other metal inclusions often cause bubbles to occur around them.   The standard solutions are to add frit to the corners, or powde...

Unless you are using some manufactured system or a frame, the most frequent way to provide hanging points for copper foiled sun catchers...

Some framing options for free hanging stained glass panels are given here.  They are not exhaustive, of course, but do give some principle...

The most common wires used for inclusion in fused objects are copper, brass, nickel/chrome, stainless steel and sterling silver. The stre...