Making Vitridinks

These quick instructions show you how to make glass design objects, like those shown here, from wafers:

Step 1

Make a wafer as you normally would:

Step 2

Place your wafer on a floral frog or other object to raise it above your work surface:

 


Sift powder over the wafer until it is at least 1/4 inch (6 mm) thick:


 

Step 3

Fire using this schedule:

The natural cooling of the kiln is slow enough to properly anneal the glass.

Here’s the result:

That's it.

Check out all the "nested" shapes in the Shapes stencil collection for other stencils that work great with this technique!

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