[Jewelry making - Article 00315] - Re: [Orchid] Fused Glass a step child?

[Comstock Art Glass]

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    I've been making fused glass and fabricated sterling silver jewelry
    since 1994. Until recently, the only people who bought it were people
    who were dichroic glass fans. 

    Over the years I've seen jewelers who work mostly with natural stone
    cabs also buying dichroic cabs from fusers and selling dichroic glass
    jewelry set in silver or gold. In CA, this has helped to bring
    dichroic glass more into the mainstream. People who bought "natural
    stone" jewelry used to walk past my booth at shows and ignore my work
    because it was glass. I well remember the days when dichroic glass was
    considered a "second class" material because it wasn't natural. I
    think this stigma has passed for some of us. Now people often walk
    past my booth and gravely inform each other that I'm working with
    opals. Apparently, many people can't tell the difference. If they
    stop, I am quick to inform them that my cabs are actually glass, not
    opal, and that I make them. 

    In the past couple of years, most of my customers are people who buy
    my jewelry for the design and quality of my metal work and not the
    glass. Yes, they're fascinated that I create the cabs as well as the
    settings, but they're buying design now. 

    Someone in this thread asked for a link to a website for glass
    jewelry discussion. There's a glass jewelry discussion board on the
    www.warmglass.com site. And yes, I happen to co-moderate it, with the
    site's owner, Brad Walker. 

Geri Comstock
Glass Artist/Jeweler
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