Fused Glass Jewels Add Variety And
Color To Fused Glass Designs
Fused glass jewels are small fused glass pieces easily made in a glass fusing kiln for fusing to art glass jewelry pieces. Glass jewels made different colored glass pieces provide a nice design feature for fused glass objects. They are suitable not only for fused glass jewelry but can be used in many glass fusing designs. They can be made from ordinary fusing glass, coarse glass frit or from dichroic glass scrap. The easiest method is to use coarse frit, this will require minimal glass preparation. For this project you will require the following items. Coarse frit. Kiln washed shelf or thinfire paper (do not use fiber paper).Warm glass kiln. Proceed as follows: Step 1. Scatter frit across thinfire covered or kiln washed shelf. Step 2. Using a paint brush or other small object spread the frit apart, make sure the pieces of frit are not touching.
Step 3. Place in glass fusing kiln and bring temperature up to 1500 F (816 C). Hold for about ten minutes or until the frit becomes rounded. You can bring the glass kiln up to fusing temperature quickly as the frit pieces are very small. Step 4. Once the pieces are rounded switch off kiln and allow glass to cool to room temperature. Step 5. You should now have a range of different size jewels that you can use for a variety of glass fusing projects. They can be tack fused, contour fused or fully fused .
Another way to do this is to cut glass strips about 3/8" wide and then nip pieces off the end to build up a stock of glass for fusing. Pieces less than a 1/2" long work best as they will round up nicely. Compatible bead making rods can also be used to make jewels. Small glass pieces are cut from the rod ends with wheeled glass nippers and fused in a glass kiln as per the above instructions. Ensure the the glass rods are suitable for use in a glass fusing kiln.
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