Heart Of Glass
Macro Mondays - Glass - HMM!
I love this heart-shaped pendant, of Murano glass, as it doesn't interact with light in the way glass usually does, possibly because of it's colour and shape. Even when held up against light it absorbs light as well as reflecting and refracting it, which gives it a very solid quality.
This was a Christmas gift from Mr Nomad a few years ago and comes from Murano, the home of glass making in Venice and measures just 5cm/2" from top to bottom(to give a sense of scale). Apart from the colour and the flecks of gold, I love how tactile it is as the surface of the glass isn't perfectly smooth and it's surprisingly heavy.
Coloured glass is produced by adding particular metals and/or oxides to the neutral-coloured, molten glass to produce various colours and shades. Red, or cranberry as it's also know, glass is made by the addition of small concentrations of gold, which also makes it more expensive to produce than other colours.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranberry_glass
Apologies for being a poor group participant today - will catch up tomorrow. It's been a Manic Monday :-)!
You can also visit me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/LyndaHPhotography
Heart Of Glass
Macro Mondays - Glass - HMM!
I love this heart-shaped pendant, of Murano glass, as it doesn't interact with light in the way glass usually does, possibly because of it's colour and shape. Even when held up against light it absorbs light as well as reflecting and refracting it, which gives it a very solid quality.
This was a Christmas gift from Mr Nomad a few years ago and comes from Murano, the home of glass making in Venice and measures just 5cm/2" from top to bottom(to give a sense of scale). Apart from the colour and the flecks of gold, I love how tactile it is as the surface of the glass isn't perfectly smooth and it's surprisingly heavy.
Coloured glass is produced by adding particular metals and/or oxides to the neutral-coloured, molten glass to produce various colours and shades. Red, or cranberry as it's also know, glass is made by the addition of small concentrations of gold, which also makes it more expensive to produce than other colours.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranberry_glass
Apologies for being a poor group participant today - will catch up tomorrow. It's been a Manic Monday :-)!
You can also visit me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/LyndaHPhotography