Fused Glass Tribal Face Nightlight

Kate Gadd cuts glass tiles into a variety of shapes and fuses them together to create her Tribal face nightlight.

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Steps 13-17
13. Mouth: Cut a long curved length of glass for the mouth. Clean, dry, and glue into place.

14. Cut a stringer to length and glue on the center of the mouth.

15. Nightlight plate embellishment: Cut slices of various colors of rods with tile nips. Place each slice using the tweezers in a line along the bottom of the blank, under the face to decorate the clear glass plate. Let the glue dry for 15-20 minutes.

16. Fusing:

  • Place the glass in the kiln, slowing raising the temperature over 2-hours until it reaches 1450-degrees.
  • Let the glass soak at this temperature for 5-minutes.
  • Over the next 45-minutes, lower the temperature in the kiln to 960-degrees and let the glass soak for 25-minutes.
  • Then let the kiln slowly cool to room temperature over the next 5-hours.

17. Remove the glass and clean and dry thoroughly.