Hand Blown Glass Jewellery

The history of Glass Jewelry & Glass Art making can be traced back to the ancient civilization in Mesopotamia or the Old Kingdom Egypt where glass artists would create colourful glass ingots and vessels, and glass beads by utilizing core-wound technique, among others. Today, glass making methods are still highly guarded by glass artists around the world, and although glass making techniques have been developed, some of the techniques are still highly similar to the ancient glass making methods. To produce glass sculptures, jewellery or mosaics, glass artists would use different glass making techniques, such as cold working, glass casting, fusing glass to lampworking and glass blowing. Among these glass making techniques, the most popular ones are the lamp working and glass blowing, respectively.

Lamp working is the process in which glass is heated and manipulated using three-carbon alkane gas, propane or oxygen-fuelled torches. The temperature of these oxy-fuelled torches can be more than 5000 degrees Fahrenheit while the glass artist is working with an assortment of metal and graphite tools, making use of the earth's gravity. Meanwhile glass blowing is a method that involves three types of furnaces and the use of a blowpipe, which makes it suitable to create large size glass products. The first furnace contains melted glass, in which the blowpipe is dipped into the molten glass. Then, the glass is manipulated into a base shape and inflated into a vessel, reheated frequently using the second furnace, sometimes referred as The Glory Hole. Finally the glass product is slowly cooled into the third furnace or the Kiln. While glass blowing technique are highly useful to create medium to large glass products such as vases and sinks, lamp working is especially of a great use for making detailed Hand Blown Glass Jewelry, including glass pendants and charms such as the ever-popular dichroic glass jewellery.

Dichroic glass jewellery is gaining much attention and popularity these days, due to the unique shimmering quality and beautiful colours it is able to reflect. Dichroic glass is often used as pendant or keepsake as there will be no exact the same dichroic glass products in the world. Dichroic glass is in essence glass containing several layers of metal oxides that may include titanium, aluminium, and zirconium to magnesium, among others. To produce dichroic glass jewellery that reflects lights of a specific colour and produces different colours, an artist should combine molten glass and metals within blazing flames, making use of his/her imagination and lamp working skills. If you are interested in getting more information related to glass blowing and buy glass jewellery, you can browse around for Glass Blowing Info and search for glass making artist website that displays wide selection of shimmering glass pendants or charms that are for sale on the web and get your own unique glass jewellery.