How Do You Purchase Dichroic Glass?
Dichroic glass is vivid and eye-catching. It is used in jewelry and as home decor accents in “art glass.” Dichroic glass has been around for centuries, its name derived from the Greek “di” and “chroma,” meaning two color. Modern dichroic glass is made by depositing layers of metallic oxides on the glass in a vacuum chamber using a high-voltage electron beam. The technique produces up to 50 layers of alternating metallic and silicon oxides. Modern dichro typically has three colors: a reflective color, a transmitted color, and a third reflective color visible at a 45-degree angle. Locate dichroic glass merchants. An Internet search of “Dichroic Glass” will produce numerous sites selling the glass (see a sampling in Resources below). Many sites offer the glass in sheets (and pieces or shards called “scrap”) for your own craft designs. They also sell pendants for making jewelry, as well as finished jewelry and hand-blown art glass objects. Know the difference between real dichro and faux.
