Wednesday, July 15

This morning we visited the behind the scenes tour of Native American baskets and pottery of the Santa Fe area. The Museum's collection was beautiful. Unfortunately, pictuers were not allowed. The sculpture in front of the building was available for photographs.

We returned to Bullseye Resource Center to prepare flower pots full of glass to create murrine and cane. 

A series of circles are cut to fill the flower pot to create the Murrine. Each circle is 1/16" larger than the previous. Cutting circles is very easy with the right tools.

The first 10 or so circles are clear. This allows for glass to begin with for pulling. The first bit of glass in the bottom of the flower pot is a bit cooler and it takes about 12" or so of cane or murrine to get to the glass temperature even for pulling.

30 circles filled my flower pot. Each color change represents a ring in the murrine.

The round slab 1" thick will crown the flower pot and create the center of the Murrine.

The cut circles are placed in the flower pot and the circular slab crowns it. The hole in the bottom of the flowerpot is enlarged to 1" to allow for the glass to funnel out for the pull.

The final stack of glass ready for the kiln.

Not bad for the amout of glass cutting I did.

Tomorrow the pull!