Anise White, where is the magic?

[SuzyQ]

What is so special besides the webbing with intense black?

[TheBriarePatch]

Yeah! What's the deal here?? Inquiring Minds need to know!!

[WillfulOne]

Me too! I have just bought some of this color and tried it for the first time yesterday. So far I am not impressed.

[Kalera]

If you put AW stringer on a black base (regular black) and cook the daylights out of it you get a neat reaction.

That is the only thing I have figured out so far.

[DesertDreamer]

I first fell for Anice white simply because it's stiffer than the usual pastel white. The webbing is cool, but I always reach for it just for making dots that will behave.

[SuzyQ]

Ah, so does dots that behave mean I could melt them in and not have them bleed everywhere?

[Mary Jean Martin]

The batch of AW I got is so shocky that it is a royal pain. One of these days, I'll have a rod warmer to heat those babies up but in the mean time it'll just sit on my shelf with the other "naughty" glass! I had such high hope for it, too!

Mary Jean

[suzee]

I like to make a base bead of anise white, add a couple of very small stringers/dots in either intense black or light brown (or both), heat it till it's super hot and colors spread/web out, shape the bead, then roll in silver. Now, burnish on the silver, and back into the flame. Don't get the glass so hot that it's molten/flowing....maintain the shape of the bead. Just play the flame over the surface of the bead....and play with the flame atmosphere....a little more oxy, a little less propane, or a little more propane, a bit less oxy...play! With patience, you will start getting all sorts of colors. I can't emphasize patience enough....these puppies can take a while to hatch.

The beads below are both made with the same technique, same colors....completely different beads!

8069

Have fun,

Peace,
Suzee

[orodrago]

Hmmm Suzee, you just may have coaxed my Anise off the topmost shelf (where I keep the stuff I planned to use when hell froze over:waving: )
Thanks!
Lavender

[Islandgirl]

Shocky doesn't begin to describe what I think of my rods of Anise!!!! I know patience is a virtue but when it comes to warming glass rods It ain't a virute I got!

However I made a Puffin using anise for the eyes and intense black for the dots and boy did he look like he'd been on a binge the night before!

Lynne

[sassy]

I agree with the shockiness of it. I haven't used mine much and I bought 5 lbs because I heard such raves about it

[xiola blue]

Now that I have a kiln I put large and shocky rods on top of it before I start working. When I need them they are much more submissive to the torch and I don't lose half of them into the black hole that glass bits fly into.
I read somewhere once about this use of Anice White: encase strong colors with anice white and pull into stringers. The results vary with different colors, opaques and transparents, but you get a hazy color of stringer for flower petals and other uses. You can use the stringer like a paint brush to coax out the underlying color on the petals. I like to wrap a bead with this kind of stringer, maybe three different colors and melt them in. Each stringer will react its own way with the base color...the results are really fun.
xiola

[SuzyQ]

hmmm, I'm guessing now isn't the time to sell anise white in the swap shop, lol.

[Cosmo]

The main thing I use Anise White for is for effects like this...

http://www.soleiletlune.com/lampwork/IMG-0375.jpg

That is Anise White on black. I put the white on, then went to a slightly reducing flame to melt it down. That brings out the brown in the white.

[GinnyHampton]

I read somewhere once about this use of Anice White: encase strong colors with anice white and pull into stringers.

This is what I was going to suggest . . . when you put anise white over a dark color then pull out, the white becomes translucent and you can see the base color through the white. You can use it to create a reverse encased stringer . . . an opaque over a transparent :)
Try it over Lauscha striking red if you have it, it's totally pretty!

[DesertDreamer]

hmmm, I'm guessing now isn't the time to sell anise white in the swap shop, lol.

Send it to MEEEEEEEEE!

Oh, and Ginny, THANKS, what a cool suggestion. Great solution for my last 3" of red. Yum!

[emeraldartistry]

Who can get enough of it on a bead to get it to react - Once you use a rod - the second time it goes in the flame it shoots little slices all over the table.
I just think it is too shocky to bother with.
Bridget Beck

[WillfulOne]

Genny, Is it less shocky as a reverse encased stringer?

[Cosmo]

I would imagine it would be less shocky. The thinner the glass is, the less shock-prone it is. I just pre-heat the rods in my kiln when I use them. That takes care of most of the shockiness...

[Mary Jean Martin]

Those pics are great! I maybe inspired to try that pesky stuff again, if I can get results like that!

[cghipp]

I annealed some of it a couple of days ago and it helped the shockiness a bit. It wasn't like magic, though!

Courtney