Wednesday 18 March 2020

CiM Testing: Chocolate

Handmade lampwork silver core big hole charm beads by Laura Sparling made with CiM Chocolate

Although you can’t really see any cloudiness here, Chocolate is one of CiM’s new cloudy transparents. It’s a true dark chocolate brown. The cloudy transparency allows a certain amount of light to shine through the bead but at the same time the glass appears mostly opaque. If you were to use a thin layer of it over something else it would act like a dark transparent and you’d get a less saturated brown.

Handmade lampwork silver core big hole charm bead by Laura Sparling made with CiM Chocolate

What’s lovely about this glass is that when used on its own, like I’ve used it here, it’s a true dark brown and it has no streakiness like actual opaque dark brown glass often gets.

Handmade lampwork silver core big hole charm bead by Laura Sparling made with CiM Chocolate

Another trouble-free glass. No working weirdness to report.

Handmade lampwork silver core big hole charm bead by Laura Sparling made with CiM Chocolate

The scrolls on these are CiM Toto.

Handmade lampwork silver core big hole charm bead by Laura Sparling made with CiM Chocolate

The beads were photographed indoors in natural daylight.