| The Joy of Dichro Or Everything you ever wanted to know about Dichroic Glass but were afraid to try |
| Want to add subtle sparkle or down right knock your socks off bling Then this is the workshop for you! In this two day Workshop students will learn: How to work with dichroic glass. On the first day students are introduced to cutting, cleaning and identifying colors of dichroic glass. Then we head for the torch room. You will learn to pull dichroic stringer, ribbon and twisted cane. The class will make test beads with several different colors of dichroic glass on transparent,black and white and patterned beads. We finish up day one with a large bead layered in strips of dichroic glass in 4 colors. On day two we will get to see the test beads and how the dichroic colors vary from bead to bead. Students will use these examples to make color choices in the future. Then it will be time to make some more! Dichroic stringer and cane application will be explored as well as what to do with all those left over bits and chips of dichro. We finish up with dichroic noodles and how to have the dichroic coating stay intact when exposed to the flame (dichro out) We will be using Bullseye COE 90 in this workshop This is a fun and challenging 2 day class |
| All rights reserved Nina "Sam" Hibler |
| Details for the following Workshops are on this page The Joy of Dichro - Floral Beads ************************************************************************ |
| Floral Beads |
| Love to stop and smell the flowers? This is an intensive one day workshop. You will learn to "grow a garden" right on your beads. We will start with simple dot flowers and encased plunge/bubble flowers. Students will learn make petal and vine stringer which they will use to "paint" raised flowers on the surface of their beads. We will learn to lay down the landscape of your garden with foils and dichroic glass to make beads with depth and interest. |
