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Making murrini
Golden Brown
by Heather Kelly
These are some murrini I made with Reichenbach 96 coe
glass.
1. Make a small cylindrical plug of iris brown on the end of
your punty. Heat the bare steel just enough for a very
slight glow and add one wrap of glass at the end, then
build the plug outwards from there. Use a marver to roll it
on and flatten the end. That gave the darker end on this
picture - the iris brown struck a little. The gather will get
large after adding all the layers, so start small.
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The base I used for these was
Reichenbach RW4291 dark olive.
2. Encase this in a layer of curry. Wrap slightly off the end
of your plug and melt and marver it over. This makes it
easier to attach a punty to all the colours of glass at the
end. At the punty end, tuck the glass in so it just touches
the steel. Again, this will anchor it. Melt in and smooth
down after each encasing layer.
Reichenbach RW0762 iris brown
Reichenbach RW0120 curry
Reichenbach RW0107 iris opal
yellow
Reichenbach RW0191 iris amber
Reichenbach RW0175 pastel green
3. Encase in iris opal yellow.
4. Encase in iris amber, which is a dark rich transparent
that can strike to all sorts of colours - you can see some
in the next pictures after it has struck more.
One punty for building your
murrini - I use a stainless steel
chopstick, or the end of a thicker
mandrel will also work (no bead
release).
I don't use glass for this end so
there's no need to worry about
thermal shock.
One glass rod for your other
punty. Clear is best - here I use
the pastel green because I had it
to hand.
Murrini nippers