Basic kilnforming
Kilnforming of glass is a popular and important way for students, hobbyists and glass artists to realize functional, decorative and wondrous objects. It offers accessible and diverse opportunities for manipulating the form and surface of glass as a material. This content provides an overview of kilnforming—including knowing about glass itself, making a glass platter and firing it in a kiln and how to look after yourself and others while doing it.
What is kilnforming?
2. This article describes the various processes and techniques that are used in manipulating glass as art, and shows how kilnforming fits within the discipline.
What is glass?
Glass is such an integral part of our lives that we take it for granted! We drink from it, use it to cook in, use it to show our reflected image, bask in the flood of light it brings into our homes, use it to magnify the image or the word, and even receive data transmissions through it....but do you know what glass really is?
The kiln: A brief outline
17. What you need to know and understand about kilns to work with glass. What kilns do, and an outline of the types that are available to use for kilnforming.
Health & safety in the studio
6. Working safely, managing the risks inherent in materials, processes and equipment.
Temperature conversion issues
7. Discusses the conversion between the two commonly used temperature scales, Celsius and Fahrenheit, and the change in preciseness which can be implied when direct conversion from one to the other scale is made.
