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The Joy of Dichro
Or
Everything you ever wanted to know about Dichroic Glass but were afraid to try

Want to add subtle sparkle or down right knock your socks off bling
Then this is the workshop for you!

In this two day Workshop students will learn:
How to work with dichroic glass.
On the first day students are introduced to cutting, cleaning and
identifying colors of dichroic glass. Then we head for the torch room.
You will learn to pull dichroic stringer, ribbon and twisted cane. The
class will make test beads with several different colors of dichroic
glass on transparent,black and white and patterned beads. We finish
up day one with a large bead layered in strips of dichroic glass in 4
colors.
On day two we will get to see the test beads and how the dichroic
colors vary from bead to bead. Students will use these examples to
make color choices in the future. Then it will be time to make some
more! Dichroic stringer and cane application will be explored as well as
what to do with all those left over bits and chips of dichro.
We finish up with dichroic noodles and how to have the dichroic
coating stay intact when exposed to the flame (dichro out)

This is a fun and challenging 2 day class