#flamework

If you’ve ever wondered how I make the little flowers inside my beads, this is a short summary of the process that shows how I build up and pull floral cane….. First step is to build up a large

These “Silver Branch” shoulder duster earrings with rainbow apple blossom beads were inspired by The Voyage of Bran, a medieval 8th-century Irish language narrative, and the beautiful flowering apple tree

Before I begin making a bead, I make the floral cane (or a rod of glass) that I cut up into little individual glass flowers called murrine which I set into the bead. I love flowering trees so I have been

Sketch by @borgheseglass I love flowering trees, especially apple, pear and crab apple trees when they’re in full bloom. We have a few apple trees in our backyard and last spring I photographed every stage

Click the image above to watch a short film demonstrating the final steps of making a flameworked glass bead from this collection : Glass Art by Natalie Borghese Subscribe on YouTube for New Works of Art

Original flameworked glass bead with hand-pulled floral murrini using Effetre, Reichenbach, Creation is Messy and Double Helix glass. Exploring reactions between glasses to create variegated leaves, various

Original flameworked glass bead with hand-pulled flower murrini using Double Helix, Reichenbach, Effetre and Creation is Messy glass. Exploring reactions between glasses to create different effects and

Original flameworked glass bead with hand-pulled flower murrini and Double Helix, Reichenbach, Effetre and Creation is Messy glass. Exploring reactions between glasses to create different effects.

Original flameworked glass bead with hand-pulled flower murrini and Double Helix, Reichenbach and Effetre glass (19mm x 22mm).

Flameworked glass bead with hand made Cherry Blossom murrini and silver glass foliage.

For the last couple of weeks I’ve been making my own hand pulled flower cane and playing with various colour combinations, petal configurations and thicknesses, designs made from layers and designs constructed

This flameworked glass bead was an experiment using implosion techniques, handmade murrini and the reduction and encasing of silver glass. Silver glass has been challenging for me, but I love the beautiful

This flameworked glass bead was an experiment using techniques that I learned from several brilliant tutorials and a combination of CIM and Double Helix silver glass. It took me two hours to make and kept

New flameworked soda lime glass bead. What do you see?

Flameworked soda lime glass implosion entitled "Frozen." Original glass art from the Lake Superior collection.

Flameworked soda lime glass bead from my Lake Superior collection.

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Original flameworked glass button and beads on leather Kumihimo bracelet....part of the Sakura Collection.

Flameworked glass flower button on hand braided kumihimo bracelet. Original art glass by Borghese Glass.

Submission for the Jewelry Category of the Glass Beadmakers UK Annual Competition held at Flame Off 2017 in Staffordshire, England. The title of this piece is "Sakura" or "Cherry Blossom,"