Kiln Creations are glass projects made by being fired in a kiln. We have had our kiln since 2003 and continue to experiment with sand castings, raked glass, pot and wire melts to create unique jewellery , art pieces and functional pieces. Look for combinations of wood and fused glass coming soon.
This amazing pendant looks like a piece of stone. It is made by cutting a piece of white glass and a piece of clear glass into an oval and putting the two together, then piling amber crushed glass on top of a few small pieces of dichroic. It is then put in the kiln and…
The circular black glass pendant is made of two layers of black glass cut into a circle . White and coloured crushed glass called frit is piled over small pieces of dichroic on the circles. The glass is melted at very high temperatures resulting in the ground glass to melt away from the middle. Each…
The maple leaf pendant is about 4 cm square. It is made by fusing a piece of black glass with a piece of clear with a punched out leaf of “dichroic slide”. The dichroic is very thin layers of metal oxides that are put onto a piece of shiny paper. After punching out the design,…
Wire melt jewellry is made by arranging glass on top of a piece of ” chicken wire” on a stand in the kiln. The glass melts at very high temperatures down through the little squares, puddling on the floor of the kiln. After 24 hours when the glass has cooled it is cut into jewellry…
Since Ann is a quilter as well as a glass artist, the quilting designs often migrate into the glasswork. This pattern is known as ” Box in a Box. Five individual pieces of coloured glass are cut then placed on a piece of clear glass. The pieces are fused in the kiln.The finished pendant is…
The pot melt pendant is made by putting clear and coloured glass in a very small clay pot on a stand in the kiln. The kiln is slowly heated to 1760 degrees until the glass drips down through the hole in the flower pot making a small circular puddle on the floor of the kiln. This…