For people who have not heard of lamp work glass, what is it and what can you create using the process?
Lamp working is the process of forming glass into shapes over a fixed torch using oxygen and LPG. Depending on the torch size you can make anything from beads to paperweights, perfume bottles, goblets etc. Do you use the lamp work process to create anything other than beads and jewellery? I use it mainly to make beads, I also make murrini canes and elements for adding to blown glass pieces. What gave you that first spark of interest in bead making using this technique? I was introduced to beads, by a friend who was having trouble finding Australian glass bead makers (2001). She was making jewellery and could get beads from overseas but at that time our $ was worth about .50c US$.
