Dichroic Glass Jewelry and Fused Glass by Kirk Bragdon
Lightpainter49's Shop Announcement
I love to work with dichroic glass. I use it to make dichroic glass jewelry, primarily in the form of dichroic glass pendants. This process is called fused glass.
Dichroic glass was developed by NASA, is formed in a vacuum chamber, and reflects different wavelengths, or colors, of light. As a result, the appearance of dichroic glass changes dramatically when it is viewed at different angles.
Consequently, dichroic glass is difficult to accurately photograph. As beautiful as my dichroic glass jewelry looks in photographs, the actual pieces of jewelry are even more dramatic and gorgeous when seen ‘in person”. I sell my dichroic glass jewelry at a lot of craft fairs, and my customers tell me they frequently get stopped by people admiring my jewelry.
My dichroic glass jewelry consists of hand crafted, one of a kind pieces, which are signed on the back. The process of fused glass consists of heating the glass to about 1500 degrees, at which point it melts, or fuses, together. Next, the fused glass is slowly cooled, or annealed, for a period of time to insure strength and durability of the piece.
