Glass Weaving . . . Part 2

As explained in the previous blog, I am learning to do glass weaving. I started a project using transparent red and green glass, mostly because I have plenty of these colors and it just happened to be seasonal also.

I finished weaving the tree and fused it in the kiln. Then I needed to trim some edges and discovered that with the woven glass that is two layers in some places and a single layer in other places, trimming is very difficult and the piece really needs to be the exact size before the glass is fused the first time. So after some struggle, I trimmed the finished flat version shown here on the right into a tree shape. Next to the completed woven tree shape is the shape of the tree mold I wanted to use.

This picture on the left shows the trimmed, woven glass on the actual mold. I slumped the glass into the mold and learned a great lesson. Although things had gone as planned up to this point, I discovered that woven glass has lots of open space and something is going to fill that space as it melts during fusing. In this case, it was glass that moved in unplanned ways to create, well, it was just a bunch of fused red and green glass. Also the sides of this mold are almost at a 90 degree angle and a gentler angle would work better. So, this project was a failure, but I learned a great deal about what to do for my next glass weaving project. Yes, there will be more to come on glass weaving!

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