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04 | COLOURS AND TEXTURES

04 | COLOURS AND TEXTURES what are we talking about, where does it come from, how does it work

Usually, coloured glass is made by adding specific oxydes.

METAL INCLUSIONS - ARTISTIC EXPERIMENTATIONS

waiyanchoi Praemonitus Series by ©Wai Yan Choi, casted glass with various metal inclusions

"Solid metal is traditionally a destructive material to the glass formation (especially in casting), but in controlled circumstances, new colour and texture possibilities can be created." Wai Yan Choi

USING STONES TO MAP A LOCAL COLOUR CHART

Salome Maarek

R&D PROJECTS

Demico Projects from Cerfav R&D team : working on how to use the sol gel process to add a coloured layer on industrial glass products.

Colver Project from Cerfav R&D team : the goal of this project is to extract the needed coloring oxydes from the soil with plants (agromine process) and then use the plant ashes in the glass composition.

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Last update: 2022-12-06