Project description
I make handmade jewellery and I am looking for a lampwork artist to build me a matched set of fifteen glass beads in one palette: deep blue, turquoise and a little warm gold for the accents. I need a range of sizes — small spacers, a group of mid-size beads for the body of the necklace, and two large focal beads that the whole piece will be built around. Inside the focals I would like a floral motif worked into the depth of the glass, so that it reads from every angle and not only from one lucky side.
One condition is not negotiable. The work is done at a gas torch in a properly equipped studio: extraction over the bench, safety glasses that cut the sodium flare, a non-flammable work surface. This is not something anyone should repeat at home on a kitchen table, so please do not bid if you have no ventilated bench of your own. Every bead must then be annealed in a kiln on the schedule for that glass. Without annealing the internal stress simply stays inside the bead, and it cracks a month or two later, already sewn into a finished necklace — I will not accept unannealed work and will not pay for it.
Please keep the finished piece safe to wear as well: glass breaks, a sharp shard cuts the hand, and a small bead is a choking hazard for a young child. That is exactly why I ask for clean holes with no sharp rim and for each bead to be wrapped separately.
What I need:
— fifteen beads in one palette: blue, turquoise, a little gold;
— sizes from small spacers up to two large focal beads;
— a floral motif inside both focals, worked in the depth of the glass;
— an even hole of a diameter that takes my cord, fully cleaned of bead release;
— hole edges ground and fire-polished so they never chafe the cord;
— a smooth surface with no bubbles on the show side;
— kiln annealing for every bead, with the schedule stated in your report;
— a trial pair of beads for my approval before you start the main set;
— each bead wrapped separately, with a note on its size and hole diameter.
One condition is not negotiable. The work is done at a gas torch in a properly equipped studio: extraction over the bench, safety glasses that cut the sodium flare, a non-flammable work surface. This is not something anyone should repeat at home on a kitchen table, so please do not bid if you have no ventilated bench of your own. Every bead must then be annealed in a kiln on the schedule for that glass. Without annealing the internal stress simply stays inside the bead, and it cracks a month or two later, already sewn into a finished necklace — I will not accept unannealed work and will not pay for it.
Please keep the finished piece safe to wear as well: glass breaks, a sharp shard cuts the hand, and a small bead is a choking hazard for a young child. That is exactly why I ask for clean holes with no sharp rim and for each bead to be wrapped separately.
What I need:
— fifteen beads in one palette: blue, turquoise, a little gold;
— sizes from small spacers up to two large focal beads;
— a floral motif inside both focals, worked in the depth of the glass;
— an even hole of a diameter that takes my cord, fully cleaned of bead release;
— hole edges ground and fire-polished so they never chafe the cord;
— a smooth surface with no bubbles on the show side;
— kiln annealing for every bead, with the schedule stated in your report;
— a trial pair of beads for my approval before you start the main set;
— each bead wrapped separately, with a note on its size and hole diameter.
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