Uranium Glass Accessory with Love Heart Inclusion

Product Description

This is a beautiful Uranium glass accessory with a Copper love heart inclusion and lots of bubbles! It has been hand wrapped with Copper band.

We like nothing better than to be in our little workshop creating things like this lovely Uranium glass accessory which could be used as a keyring, a bag charm or anything else you can think of. We especially like using Uranium glass (also known as Vaseline or Pearline glass) because it’s so unusual and beautiful. We made this piece from raw stock Uranium glass sourced in the Czech Republic; we cut and kiln-fire the pieces, in this case using a layering technique and including a love heart we shaped from Copper wire; the bubbles were created using Copper oxide.

After hand wrapping the glass with Copper wire and using Silver solder for the joints to add strength, we used a combination of techniques such as patinating and Copper plating on the Copper wire to create our desired effect; the patinating process gives the Copper a real patina, it is not an artificial colourant/pigment. The Copper is not varnished and overtime the patina will change, this beautiful property of Copper means that your piece will take on individual characteristics, telling its own story of how it has been used.