Webbing on Ivory Beads

[lldesigns]

Hello All! I'm trying to figure out how to get the dark brown and black webbing on ivory beads. Which color ivory is best? Is silver leaf better than silver foil? Is it how long it's cooked? Does the bead need to be held in a certain part of the flame? Reduction, oxidizing, etc.? Can someone please help me with this? Thanks!

[Lara]

Dark ivory and Intense black work well. I use both silver leaf and silver foil and heat the snot out of the bead until I get the look I want.

[Lara]

I did a search using "webbing" and there are lots of threads. Might want to take a look.

http://www.lampworketc.com/forums/search.php?searchid=497449

[FiredDesires]

I like making my sis with the dark ivory. Then use stringer on ivory bead and let it get fairly hot, using the gravity of drooping glass to stretch the stringer all over the place....some interesting effects. The intense black stringer, pulled almost hair-thin and laid all over, do the graivty thing too...some serious lacing going on...very pretty. Be sure to show us your results..

[beadgoodies]

Intense black will definitely web nicely on ivory -- either light or dark, with silver or without. It's good stuff and will web other colors besides ivory as well. It's an expensive color BUT a little goes a long way so even a quarter pound will last a long time! I bought it as stringer so that I wouldn't mix it up with my other blacks by mistake. Good stuff. I recommend it!

Candy

[Kevan]

You just want the thinest stringer imaginable with the intense black. It floats on top of the ivory or other glass you put it on, so it will spread out and web all over. If you use too much it will take over and you will have mostly black. Which you might want in some applications.

[Lisi]

Dark ivory is a great organic color but it has a tendency to "swallow" other colors placed on top of it when melting it in. Will the intense black sink in and disappear too??

I used dark ivory these beads which have silver completely covering on the base and several random large transparent dark aqua dots. The silver kept the aqua from disappearing too much, but the dots shrunk way down because they sunk in to the base.

Dark ivory would be my favorite color if it didn't like to eat others.... :lol:

[Kevan]

Intense black is kind of like an oil slick on top of glass. These are ivory with just the thinnest black stringer and then cooked and cooked. You have to really heat it to get it to web. I think the places where the lines are blue is where it sank just under the surface.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e36/oobeads/ivoryandiblack1.jpg

[Lisi]

Intense black is kind of like an oil slick on top of glass. These are ivory with just the thinnest black stringer and then cooked and cooked. You have to really heat it to get it to web. I think the places where the lines are blue is where it sank just under the surface.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e36/oobeads/ivoryandiblack1.jpg

Ooooo yeah! That's what I love about that effect! You used regular ivory, not the dark, right?? I'll try some thin thin pulled from stringer intense black over the Vetrofond dark ivory I have and see what happens.

Tonight, I guess I feel like going out there. Kinda tired from babysitting daughter's two rescue kittens. I have to go dip mandrels, sigh....

[lldesigns]

Thanks for all the tips. I'll try it again, and again, and again...You get the idea. PPP. :smile: