Make A fused Glass Millefiori Pendant

Originally from the isle of Murano, millefiori beautiful flower-like patterns are made from various layers of colored art glass.

Genuine millefiori is hand made, special techniques and skills are required to produce these colorful glass pieces.

It is a very simple fused pendant to make and is quite colorful when finished.

You can alter the size and color of the fusing glass and millefiori if you wish.

Do not cap the millefiori with clear fusing glass as this may cause the pendant to break.

Breakage seems to be as a result of the clear fusing glass spreading down the sides of the base glass whilst the millefiori have not completely fused into the glass.

The millefiori will continue to expand as they fuse into the glass layers.

This creates stresses within the glass resulting in breakages.

Millefiori can be purchased in varying colors and sizes.

You will need the following items for this project.

Two pieces of yellow Bullseye glass 11/8" x 11/8".

COE 90 Millefiori.

Glass cutter.

Warm Glass kiln

Thin fire paper or kiln washed shelf.

Proceed as follows:

Step 1. Cut yellow fusing glass to size.

Step 2. Wash and dry thoroughly.

Step 3. Stack glass on prepared glass kiln shelf and place three different size pieces of millefiori on top.

Check to see that is fully fused, some times you will need to hold longer as millefiori can be slow to fuse completely.

Once the pendant is fully fused switch glass kiln off and allow to cool to room temperature.