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The making of rain jewelry from sunshine and recycled bottles
by Tawny Reynolds on Mar 08, 2017
One of Sundrop Jewelry’s most popular colors is “Water.” Not only is it a gorgeous color in its own right - the pale blue teardrops look just like little drops of rain jewelry - it is also the perfect color for the March birthstone, aquamarine. Best of all, these pale blue translucent glass drops are made from recycled Bombay Sapphire Gin bottles!
Take a look behind the scenes at this elegant rain jewelry in each stage of the process.
Take a look behind the scenes at this elegant rain jewelry in each stage of the process.
Long strips of glass are cut from this big square bottle that once held Bombay Sapphire Gin.
Using a giant magnifying glass to focus sunshine, the strips are melted into small glass teardrops that look just like rain drops! Click here to watch videos of the process.
A melted strip of recycled Bombay Sapphire Gin bottle, with unfinished glass teardrops.
So many elegant little rain drops!
Sorting and pairing glass drops to make glistening, pale blue rain jewelry.
A sample of Sundrop Jewelry's rain jewelry - from a single tiny water drop of the Solandra Y-Necklace to the flooding cascade of Lanata Earrings.
And see my best-selling Water Solaris Earrings in motion below...
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i make stain glass work
I probaly try it whit some colored glass of all kind
advise
so you thing it is possible
we have lot of reject glass at shool
follow the result
rhank for the edeal
is it possible to cpmbine x2 magnefier
also
i have some pink boolte drom % store here in quebec cancada maybe it is possible also
and finaly
how do you put the little ring to the glass by glue it or make a hole in the glass
mayeb explaine more
i see somwhere if the glass is melt continius and drop in water that give some king of tempered glass sculture
thank for the charing
I am a glass artist. Glass melts from 1300 – 1430 degrees Fahrenheit. The magnifier can achieve that high of temps?