Silver Leaf lampwork techniques that will get you having fun on your torch today!

 

I wanted to share how I use fine silver leaf and silver foil on my beads today but when I started videoing, I could have talked and demoed for an hour.

Sssoooo, I decided to demo silver leaf lampwork techniques today and in another video we will cover silver foil. There is really tons to learn about using the two silvers and you’ll need to spend some time getting acquainted with these wonderful techniques!

I actually did a video (that went over YouTube’s time limit that I have to upload a special way) where I combined both silver leaf and silver foil on a bead. I’ll be sharing that one with you after I do a silver foil video.

Here’s my silver leaf lampwork techniques in this video: WARNING…WEAR  A MASK & USE VENTILATION!

The below video has my demo beads and explanation of the different silver leaf lampwork techniques & examples of silver foil techniques I will demo next …

THINGS TO REMEMBER ABOUT SILVER LEAF LAMPWORK TECHNIQUES:

1. Try using the silver leaf on the surface of different glass such as…dark ivory, black, red. Many glasses will have chemical reactions with the silver. Other colors to try… transparent blue, rubino pink, as well as some opaque glasses.

2. Try using a reducing flame and then an oxidizing flame

3. Try covering with clear after you reduce the silver

4. Do sample beads with different glass colors to keep a record of reactions of the silver.

5. Try this… putting on silver leaf/reduce & burn in/ then rubino/reduce/then clear

6.  Try putting silver leaf/don’t burn off/ rubino/reduce/clear/silver leaf over clear/reduce

7. Try silver on top of a transparent glass color and reduce

8. Combine silver leaf techniques with silver glass fuming techniques

9. Combine with Double Helix silver glass striking techniques

10. Combine silver leaf techniques with silver reducing techniques

11. Combine with silver fuming & encasing techniques

12. Pay attention to the chemical reactions and fuming going on… especially on the clear!

TAKE NOTES…I guarantee you’ll forget what you did!

Remember…There’s no right way… you can’t get it wrong

Learn how to express your personality with silver leaf techniques! Think about things you like in your life…where you live, what hobbies you do, things you love and figure out how you can express them with a bead and the silver leaf lampworking techniques.

For example… if you love rock hunting…try making a glass bead with rock characteristics.

Love the mountains?… make a mountain scene with a bead.

Love flowers…how can you use the silver leaf techniques in your glass flower beads?… background or flower itself.

Make your beads personal and DO NOT COPY ANYBODY!!!!!

When you copy another lampworker’s bead, you cut off your connection to your divinity! That equals DEATH and a dead end road! Take the lampworking technique and use it to express your inner uniqueness!

 

Are my video tutorials on silver leaf lampworking techniques helping?  Tell me 2 ways you are using silver leaf?

Patsy :)

 

*******I used silver leaf and silver foil on this bead

glass lampwork bead with silver leaf & foil techniques

 glass lampwork bead with silver leaf and foil

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