Fused Glass Plate With Open Weave
Slumped In Fusing Mold

This plate is made from transparent fusing glass strips laid on a clear glass base, fused and then slumped in a fusing mold.

You can use either COE 90 or COE 96 glass; Coe 90 was used for this tutorial.Size and colors can be altered to suit your design choices.

You will need the following materials for this project:

Ten x 4 3/4" x 1/2"wide transparent fusing glass strips, five of each color.

One clear fusing glass base 4 5/8" square.

Glass cutter.

Glass fusing kiln.

Kiln washed shelf or thin fire paper.

Slumping mold.

Proceed as follows:

Step 1. Cut glass strips and glass base to size.

Step 2. Place clear glass base on prepared kiln shelf.

Step 3. Place a vertical layer of strips, spaced evenly, on clear glass in the following order: blue, green, blue, green, blue. Next place strips horizontally: green, blue, green, blue, green. Strips will overhang clear base plate.

Step 4. Place shelf in glass fusing kiln.

Step 5.You can use your own firing schedule or use this one as a guide:

Check glass at 1450 F to ensure that it has fully fused.

Step 6. Remove glass plate from glass kiln.

Step 7. Place glass plate in slumping mold and put in glass kiln.

Step 8.Use above schedule but replace 1450 with 1320 to 1350 for the slumping process.

Monitor slumping to ensure that the glass slumps correctly.

Step 9. Remove fused glass weave plate from kiln.

Transparent art glass strips cut to size.	Fully fused art glass weave plate.	Fully slumped art glass weave plate.

With this type of design you should now have a fused glass weave plate, smoothly shaped with nicely scalloped edges.