Friday, July 17, 2015

Today was very busy. I pulled my flower pot of cane. Put together a plate using the cane for fusing. I built the murrine tray and got it ready for fusing. Then put in an expiermental disign using the murrine chips left over from when I cut the murrine 3/8" pieces. And put together a flower pot of cane to pull on Saturday. The three pieces are in the kiln fusing Friday night. They will be ready to see and cold work on Saturday.

Here are the cut cane ready to go into the kiln for fusing.

Drawing a shape on the kiln shelf allows for placing the murrine inside of lines to create a non-square shape.

After the murrine are place, they can be surrounded by fiber paper and supported by small blocks of kiln shelf. Any shapes can be made with this method.

Lning up all the little round Murrine can be tedious. Sorting them to make designs is also tedious. There are many hundred murrine in a small piece. To me the pieces are beautiful.

I did not take as many pictures as I should have. Was to busy getting my pieces ready for the kiln. I promise more pictrues tommorrow.