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Quasar – reinvented!

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Quasar has similar working properties to Calypso, but with a spectrum of purples, reds, blues and lavenders. It may be slightly more forgiving than Calypso, but as always, test your processes when using new colors!

Just like Calypso and Meta-Terrania, this color likes to be kept hot and garaged often. It may help to garage it at 1100F if possible. The viscosity curve is steep, meaning it will cool fast when out of the heat. So pay close attention to the heat base during your process. Warm it up slowly and evenly when re-introducing to the flame.

This is a really fun color to play with. It doesn’t take much to get the swirly variations in color. We can’t wait to see what you all make with this one!

Penland 2016!

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Thanks so much to Beccy Feather for inviting us to talk with her class at Penland! It was a fun morning meeting everyone and talking about glass and color – our favorite topics 🙂

We got to meet the students, see what they were working on, and answer questions. We discussed basic glass chemistry, some information about the process of melting glass, and several of the common glass colorants used in modern colored glass manufacturing. Additionally, we talked quite a bit about safety and health concerns as they relate to working with (and making) colored glass.

Aaron was able to show them how to successfully work a few of our colors, how to avoid potential scuzz in Meta-Terrania, and how to “flame strike” it to bring out more of the blue haze. Thanks again to Beccy and Kim for having us!

If you haven’t seen Beccy’s work yet, I highly recommend it. Here is Beccy’s IG feed.

Her teaching assistant, Iroczii, also has some impressive work to check out on IG here.

Alabaster, Sable, and Tung available now!

Sable is a warm brown, Alabaster is an off-white ivory, and Tung is an earthy red. This completes the first phase of our RealTone palette. These colors have been designed to give the boro artist a wide range of skin and earth tones to choose from. They are all are mixable with each other to provide further variations. Bring the more saturated colors up to temp gradually in the back of a soft flame to avoid boiling.

We now offer a RealTones sample pack in addition to our standard sample pack. This includes 2 rods of each color from the RealTones category.

First RealTones Released!!!

We are excited to announce the first official RealTones for the borosilicate palette!

These colors are made to work smooth and be opaque, but not completely dense. They show a certain amount of translucency, especially in blown work. This helps allow the light to bounce around in the glass and add a “fleshy” quality to the color.

This week we released Cortex, Plastique, and Tantric. In the next few weeks we will release Sable and Tung, with more to follow in the future. Visit ourglass page to order and find more information on these colors. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook to stay updated on new colors, tubes, and other news.