My Glass Irish Heart

As promised in my post on Sunday, here are a couple of photos of the glass heart paperweight I made at Akron Glass Works:

The top view shows the nice line created by dipping the second gathering of molten glass in the colored green sandy-like pigment. The swirl at the center is from the molded first gather, best viewed from the side:

The first gather is also dipped in pigment prior to being pressed into the fluted mold. The "bubbles" in the first and second gathers are created deliberately. The glass artisan can add as many as he or she desires. I used a light green pigment for my first gather and a dark green for my second. (It's an Irish thing...) The third and final gather was left clear.

Big fun!