Filigree Twist Foglio - Black Color:Black olive and gold

olive and gold

With large white baroque pearls at end

Handmade and finished with stain and porcelain terra sigllata

measuring patterns of change as the earth rotates

porcelain and colored clay lamp was built using the neriage technique and boasts quality hardware

Filigree Twist Foglio - Black Color:Black olive and goldThis blown glass vessel from Patchen's "Foglio" series is created with the cane technique. To make cane, Patchen encases a rod of white glass in molten clear glass then it is stretched 50 60 feet long, reducing its diameter to about the thickness of a pencil. After cooling, the long rod is cut into 6" lengths, reheated and rolled onto a molten glass bubble on a blowpipe. Closing the end creates a striped bubble which Patchen can then twist and