Thursday 31 January 2008

'Purple Fusion'

Yep - more Fusion beads, this time in my favourite colour. Lovely, lovely purple. These ones are on eBay too.

My Fusion beads feature some really delicate stringerwork. I thought I'd post a photo to try and show exactly how thin that stringer is :

Normal glass rods are about 6-7mm in diameter. Pre-pulled stringers that you buy from glass suppliers are about 3mm diameter and the green stringer in the photo is one of those. Yes - those four thin white strands are my ridiculously thin stringer!

5 comments:

  1. I've been reading about stringers in my book which has now been read cover to cover 7/8 times. Waiting for payday and then going to have a look at a little torch, will have to spread the expence a bit!

    I do love theswe beads Laura, really pretty!

    Mandie x

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  2. wow laura thanks for showing us the stringers,i can pull them that thin, but applying them is another story LOL, i find as soon as u put it in the flame to stick it seperates into blobs, so annoying.I sooo envy you

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  3. Wow, I don't know how you do it! How do you make those tiny flower-shapes? Do you have to shape those as well?

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  4. Thanks for the lovely bead feedback.

    Angie, it is tricky to use such thin stringer and when doing so there can often be a large amount of swearing!

    Caroline, the little flowers are murrini. I make a stripy cane, nip it into small bits and apply them to the bead.

    Laura x

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  5. wow you amaze me Laura - thats why I stick to the jewellery ;)

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