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2010-06-23, 9:43am
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Question Please: How do you work Iris Violet Frit?
Hi Everybody, last night found a jar I had of big chuncks of Iris Violet Frit. I decided to encase it in clear and pull it out into a stringer. I tried it on an ivory bead and reduction flame and it came out black...YUK...so I was wondering, can anyone please share some of their success with this frit with me?
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2010-06-23, 12:28pm
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You are getting the typical Ivory-Rubino reaction. Ivory does not like pinks or purples.
That said, I don't know a good use for Iris Violet. In my experience, it does not work well for faux boro, although other Iris colors do.
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2010-06-23, 1:16pm
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I don't know the answer but Val cox did a wonderful book on frit. And her second edition will be out soon...
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2010-06-23, 4:51pm
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oh ok...well see. I did'nt know that...I just thought just because I love Ivory so would the glass...LOL...ok well thanks for that tip I will experiment with other colors now...
Thank you Erose... Paula I think I might have that book hummm...now I have to go hunting...
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2010-06-23, 5:06pm
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All of the iris colors will react that way with ivory. They have a high metal content which can cause a black reaction line.
Opal yellow should play nicely, as will silver pink.
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2010-06-23, 9:39pm
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If I had the chunks, I wouldn't have encased it. Just heat the chunk and pull. All, or at least most, of the iris glasses are reactive to heating and cooling and even a reduction flame. I'm not sure what COE it is, (my guess is 96) but adding this to black is nice too. Play.
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2010-06-24, 9:42am
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It does work with the faux boro technique, it's just very dark and not as easy to see. You need to really thin it out and put it on a light non reactive background.
If you look for my posts in that thread, I think I've got both Iris greens and blues in there. The violet does the same thing, but darker.
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2010-06-24, 11:17am
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Will work for glass...
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I just have to chime in and recommend the Val Cox book as well. It is the only resource I know of that TRULY explains (in great detail, btw), the many ways that frit can be used and also gives a great background of the different manufacturers, etc. I learned quite a bit about furnace glass and have a better understanding of color combination, etc. EXCELLENT resource if you plan to use frit even a little.
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2010-06-26, 12:23am
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Here it is used with a pale amethyst transparent (effettre) - bead rolled in it, encased, and then rolled again.
Yep, always sems to go black when used with ivory. Need to play with reduction flame and some of the transparents and see what it does.
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2010-06-28, 4:21am
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Why did it react with the ivory if she encased it in clear? Pretty beads, Foos!
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2010-06-28, 8:27am
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I'd guess it just looks really dark, which could be easily confused with being black...of course, if any part of the frit did hit the ivory, it would also turn black.
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2010-06-28, 10:12am
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Will work for glass...
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You can roll that frit in a little bit of white glass and melt it in. Gorgeous! Also, I think Val's book suggests using transparent clear (or you could use lavendar transparent, as Dynamic Duo does, above). Try melting a blob of transparent glass on the end of a rod, roll it in frit and melt it in, then wind the whole blob around the mandrel in a meandering fashion to make it look kind of "swirly." It does devitrify a bit, but the DV actually looks kind of like you "frosted" the glass.
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