GlassFancy initially started out being all about fused glass jewelry.
I started experimenting with metal inclusions and even today, a lot of my pieces have fine silver, which is 99.9% pure silver, encased in the glass.
I try to create crisp edges and clear shapes in many of my pieces by cold working the glass after the fusing process. It is a time consuming process in which the glass is sanded with consecutively finer and finer grid until it is shaped and the glass is completely smooth.
Relatively recently, I have added furniture knobs and pulls to my selection of handmade contemporary fused glass and soon, matching accent tiles will follow.
They are made individually with care and attention to detail and are more like jewelry for your furniture than actual hardware.
The furniture knobs and tiles fit into a generally modern style category with bright and cheerful colors that can give tired kitchen and bathroom cabinets and drawers a playful and up-beat facelift.
Fused glass is "art glass that has been heated in a kiln to the point where two separate pieces are permanently joined without losing their individual color".
So, the separate pieces of glass melt together but do not mix.
The way this is accomplished, is by arranging and stacking different colors of sheet glass.
In order to melt the arrangements together, they are put through one or more firings in a kiln that may reach temperatures of up to 1500 degrees Fahrenheit.
To refine the shape, the glass then undergoes a series of sandings of consecutively finer and finer grid until the desired form is reached and the glass is completely smooth again.
If you would like to read more about glass, including some interesting articles about its history, HERE is a list of resources from the Corning Museum of Glass.
My name is Kerstin, but pretty much everybody calls me Kim.
I'm an animal lover and enjoy playing computer games if and when I have the time. Some more academic interests of mine are Ethnology, Anthropology and lately, Physics.
I was born and raised in Germany and studied History of Arts at the University in Berlin.
Cooper foil stained glass was my first exposure to the realm of glass and I was hooked. From there I tried the lead came technique and bought a kiln for traditional glass paints. But you can't have a kiln and not try glass fusing, and so it happens that I am doing what I am doing today.
I have been part of the handmade movement since the beginning of 2009 when I opened my first Etsy store.
Below you can see some of my stained glass and mosaic pieces.
If you are a business and are interested in the wholesale of my cabinet knobs and pulls, please contact me at Kim_Glass-Fancy.com or submit a
Wholesale Application Form .
ADDRESS
PO Box 526
Moriches, NY 11955
EMAIL
Kim_Glass-Fancy.com
