Glass Frit Powder Fused
Glass Pendant

In this tutorial, the first of two on this subject, I am going to fuse together flat glass, frit and powder to make a fused glass pendant, I have used Bullseye Glass for this project. System 96 will work just as well.

To make this pendant you will need the following:

Two pieces of glass 11/4 inch square.

Coarse clear frit.

Powder.

Sifter.

Long tweezers.

Face mask.

Thin fire kiln paper.

Warm glass kiln.

Step 1.

Cut two pieces of glass about 1 1/4 inches square or larger. Place them on top of one another.

Wearing a face mask spoon some powder into the sifter, gently tap the sifter until the glass pieces are completely covered with frit.

Place pieces of coarse frit on top of the powder. You may need to use the tweezers to place frit around the edges of the glass. Once the glass is completely covered gently move the piece onto thin fire paper placed on a kiln shelf.

Place the shelf into the warm glass kiln, gradually bring the temperature up to about 1500 F (815 C) and hold for about 20 minutes. Check to see that is fully fused, if so turn the kiln off and let it cool to room temperature.

You can have fun with this technique through experimenting, use medium frit, combined powder colors, sprinkling a different powder color over the frit as well as having a base cover of powder.

Changing the shape of the base glass as well as using varying colors along with transparent frit will give you very unique and original designs.