But what will my choice of glass and the choices within that glass give, how will the different colours marry? I used available glass in my stock for flower stems and borders.
I fitted up the first cut and found section on a light table, remembering that this only approaches the impression given on a finished lamp.
Can’t wait to see the finished lamp, I’m pretty sure the flowers work.
After a long discussion with Fiona, she said a lamp similar to this one would be her choice.
However at 16 inches, this was the Tulip design that I could find available, so next choice, choose the glass.
20th October till 20th January and the Peacock lamp is now finished! My photos don’t bring out the full depth of colour, but there you go.
There were a number of difficulties to overcome, the first was the lack of availability of a brass upper ring or its support ring.
As I had already thought about strengthening the lower edge of the Wisteria lamp that is already underway I had purchased several meters of tin coated copper braid from Tressage du Dorlay, 3mm inner diameter, 6mm outer diameter. This was considerably cheaper than the brass ring (2.37€/meter as opposed to 49€) and formed easily around the finished opening after demolding. After soldering in place and coating the surface with solder, this gave a clean round form to the lampshade upper opening.
The 76mm support ring was replaced by a 140mm tin coated ring which I soldered in place on the lamp inner surface at 6 different locations. This too was considerably cheaper ( 7€ instead of 114€).
Here we are with the first of eight repeats almost finihed, I’ll swap out number 51 in blue for better blended in green/yellow blue colour. The glass colours chosen are: WISSMACH 703 WO Mystic blue purple white for the top, then bleu vert et opaline WO 197 et vert claire et opaline WO 57 et orange et opaline KO 112 from Stefatelier, Verre « Youghiogheny » bleu cobalt ambre et opaline, Vert et Jaune Chamarré from GK Terchniques
A reminder of the sketched out colour ideas
So my cousin Nicola asked me if I would make a lamp for her and after a little research on the internet she said that this one looked nice, but maybe a little smaller than this 27 inch lamp, so we went for the 16 inch version which I sketched out for glass colours
So of we go, I’ll do this one at the same time as the Wisteria!
Slowly but surely the first of 6 sectors is underway with roughly the first 125 pieces ready, somewhere around 1/3 of the pieces on this sector.
The Wisteria lamp is underway with the first of glass pieces cut, ground and placed on the pattern.
Only 1950 pieces to prepare before soldering.
Next step is to choose the Glass
I’ve chosed three Youghiogheny glass types to combine here,
The Cobalt blue amber and opaline
The Opale ambre jaune vert et rouge
The bleuviolet et rose à l’or & opaline
Shown above, from Stefatelier in 30cm by 30cm format and paid 85,84 euros for the three sheets, I also picked up the tacky wax and the pickling gel for a further 11,20 euros
Well everything is ready, just need to wax up.
But wait what is that tool for keeping the mould horizontal at different heights?
Yes! It’s a round broomstick sticking through the hole in a drawer. But how do I adjust the height?
Well you’ve hung brushes, brooms etc in a shed maybe? Well it’s the same one way grip on the inside of the drawer.
Celia’s idea of a lamp was more like this, nuances but also colour variants and a degraded colour scheme from top to bottom.
This should be easier right? Well I’m waiting for the filigrees to see if the wing colours are not too bright. Yes, more worries, well I guess I would just change the wing colours if they don’t work.
Marqueterie et Tiffany 