Slumping glass ideas

Information on glass fusing, kiln forming, stained glass, etching, selling, and other tips on the craft of glass from Stephen Richard

Learn about ways to slump glass bowls in different types of molds. Includes clay, stainless steel and fibre-blanket molds.

Glass slumping offers a number of possibilities to create unique glass bowls, platters, and art glasswork. It helps your mold glass into different shapes and textures using heat, gravity, and slumping molds. In this blog, we’ll guide you through the process of slumping. We’ll explain: What Is Slumping? Slumping Vs. Fusing Equipment Required for Slumping

Fusing and Slumping Glass: In one of my sculpture classes at Carthage College, my students and I experimented with fusing and slumping glass. Carthage had many glass supplies, a kiln that looked barely used but no one teaching it. None of us had ever done this but I felt wit…

What do you do when you don't have the right mold to create the plate you want? You try to make your own mold! I did, and after quite a few attempts, it worked.

Take the guess work out of slumping glass and get to grips with the drop out technique on this one day class at our studio near Bristol, UK.

Bonny Doon Fused Glass Tools... maker of stainless steel glass fusing forms, bottomless molds, pattern bar formers and pot melt pots.

Apollinaris sparkling water bottles are crushed and fused into leaves. Copper wire leaf veins are fused into glass leaves, and then soldered to brass stems....

Check out these awesome glass fusing design and project ideas which you can make at home or in your own studio: jewelry, plates, swizzle sticks, garden stakes and much more!

beach combing glass post-slump