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Created by Sharon McNamara and Paul Palango, these glass cats using fused glass are each hand cut, hand colored with crusted glass and adorned with images or splashes of dichroic glass. Kiln Art Studio is located in Chester Basin, Nova Scotia.
Dichroic glass is made when multiple ultra-thin layers of different metals such as gold or silver, and metal oxides such as titanium, chromium, aluminum, zirconium, or magnesium, or silica are vaporized by an electron beam in a vacuum chamber. The...
How did the Vikings navigate their way safely to the New World and back? Iolite, once called a “water sapphire,” has a strong pleochroism ability meaning that from one direction iolite can appear blue violet and from another direction it can...
Handmade in Seattle, Washington, Glass Eye is a team of glassblowing artists that intensely make and create new designs every 6 months. Their glass ornaments are the most collectible with new designs and limited edition pieces, you can add new...
Lapis lazuli mined since the 3rd millennium BC, has been traded and made into jewelry since ancient Mesopotamia by the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians. Lapis jewelry has been found in Predynastic Egyptian site of Naqada (3300-3100 BC). And not...
