Glass molds let you create functional art pieces by adding textures slumping your fused glass into platters bowls plates and cast glass into tiles jewelry or unique embellishments for larger pieces.
Glass sheets for slumping.
Delphi offers a huge supply of slumping casting and jewelry molds.
Add an incredible fresh color of opalescent string of pearls sheet glass to your next art glass fusing project.
1325 fire polish the glass edges will soften become slightly rounded.
A slump mold on the other hand is bowl shaped into which the glass melts.
Annealing is the point of the fusing process where the stress in the glass is released.
A symbol of change and transformation.
Glass slumping sometimes called warm glass or glass art is a form of artistic expression that uses the heat of a gas or electric kiln to melt 2 or more different pieces of glass together and fuse them into 1 piece.
Other terms used with fusing glass are annealing combing kiln casting glass casting and slumping.
They will become permanently attached to each other but without noticeably softening their edges.
A quick and fun project idea.
Once fired you can slump it into nearly any shape to create bowls trays and plates with amazing detail.
Light amber white sheet glass is a great accent color to brighten up any fused art glass piece.
This newly formed glass is then placed over a ceramic mold.
Ice clear transparent sheet glass named for its slightly bluish hue ice clear is cost effective and a great addition to any glass piece.
This creature will breath life into your next project.
There are two basic types of molds in glass slumping.
Collage opalescent streakies transparent precut glass sheets.
Hump molds are used to form the interior of the slumped glass.
Glassworkers usually slump their medium over metal molds and into ceramic molds.
Please make sure to read the detail page of each fusible sheet glass.
The glass sheet or piece is placed on top and slumps over it it at the right temperature assuming the same shape.
Wasser glass sheets are an option you will start to see due to current color availability issues in our industry.
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We precut bullseye glass sheets or uroboros into standard sizes but just let us know if you need custom cut glass sheets.
The glass will become soft enough to sag and can be slumped or draped.
Combing is the art of raking the fluid glass usually with another color to create a dragging design.
Both are placed inside the kiln and the kiln is fired up.
Coe90 glass sheets are the foudation of your fused glass art designs.
Red reactive opalescent sheet glass the unique formula for red reactive opalescent sheet glass creates an interface color or reaction when melted against certain other colors.