Question:
Is it possible to melt seed beads onto lampwork beads? or fused glass beads?
I'm picturing a kind of flat pendant, sprinkled with crystal colored seed beads
(the cheap ones you can buy for 1.76 per 50 grams at Wally World) and letting
the kiln do all the work.
Just curious--I was adding fringe to a bracelet, using tiny transparent colored
seed beads, and that popped into my head.
Answer:
-It would only work if the glass was compatible with the lampwork glass
(probably not). If not, the bead would break.
You can't just mix any ol' glasses together.
-Okay, that makes sense. So could you make an entire bead by melting seed beads
in the kiln?
I would love to see that, even if it wouldn't hold up--just to see how it
looks.
-Well, probably. But any coating on the seed beads (ab finish, metallic,
matte finish, etc.) might react to that kind of heat negatively - and that
sometimes can be toxic. If you just had plain glass with no coatings, that
might work. But then, it would just be....plain glass.
