Pate de verre is French for "paste of glass". The name implies a casting made using small grains of glass. The process starts with a handmade clay or wax master, used to create a single use mold from plaster. The glass grains are carefully packed into the plaster mold and fired.
After firing, the mold is destroyed as part of the process of removing the fired glass piece, so each vessel is an original. The glass is carefully cleaned to remove any remaining plaster, and polished to bring up the surface luster. Pate de verre can produce vesssels of complex shapes and steep walls that are beyond the scope of flat fusing and slumping .
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"Tulip" |
"Teazel Weed" |
"Sunflower" |
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"Sandstone" |
"Agate" |
"Stone Wall" |
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"Oak Leaves" |
"Moss" |
"Japanese Maple"
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"Turkey Feather" |
"Butterfly" |
"Sea Urchin" |