Description
Our debut deep dive beadmaking experience over the course of two days. This is for our Advanced Beginners and Intermediate bead makers. You will rediscover and focus on shape and forming beads, improving your heat control, working with frits and latticino to create intermediate and complex cane as well as learning how to make hollow beads. As well as blowing shards for surface decoration. We
Day 1
1- Practise pulling stringers from super thick to super thin creating an archive for various applications.
2- Encased cane and exploring variations for design and variegated effects.
3- Form and understanding how to shape the beads with heat, gravity and rotation. Learning how to make beads of the same size and shape on one mandrel.
Day 2
1- Off mandrel shapes exploration and practice. Working on the tip of a mandrel to create pendants. From mushrooms to fruits and berries. Using frits and enamels.
2- Creating beautiful hollow beads on a mandrel with gradations and translucency. Learning how to create a series of different sizes and decorations.
3- Organic shards made with a blow pipe. This is one of the most rewarding techniques and applications. Working with a stainless steel blowpipe to create beautiful shards to apply in your designs.
Our studio is fully equipped with six Alpha two Stacks torches, tools, glass and a special state of the art ventilation system designed for your comfort and safety.
Lubna founder and a maker loves to share her fascination and passion for beads and handicrafts.
Age Eligibility: 16 years +
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