Learn How to Make Glass Beads Workshop 2020

Learn how to make lampwork glass beads on a torch. Melt glass and manipulate the glass while hot into a bead and decorate the surface with dots, drizzle and frit. Learn to shape a bead into a square , bicone and round bead. Moulds will be available to use in the last hour of class.

Keep to simple, similar colour and small beads and you will have 10 beads for a bracelet. We can make these into jewellery in another class or make them up yourself. Beads need to be annealed to make them strong. You will have to come back and pick up your beads from the Guild of Objects or pay for postage.

Pauline Delaney is a glass artist who works in designing and making lampwork glass beads and lampwork glass jewellery for galleries. She also produces individual focal glass beads and glass lampwork bead sets for clients and jewellery makers.

Pauline's work is represented in many private, corporate and public collections including The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, USA.

This workshop is for beginners. All equipment supplied for the two and a half hours. Burner, hand tools and protective eye-wear. Students between the ages of 13 and 16 need to be accompanied by an adult. 

Please wear old clothing and of non-synthetic material.