Item Name:
The Flow Magazine Winter 2016
SKU:
FLOW-WINTER-2016
Description:
The Flow Magazine Winter 2016 is a printed, full-color magazine issue dedicated to flameworking and glass art, built as a bench reference with artist features, process photography, and technique articles. This issue is the 12th Annual Women in Glass edition and includes a gallery featuring the work of 160 female flameworking artists. Tutorials confirmed from this Winter 2016 issue on The Flow website include Ikuyo Yamanaka’s How to Make Flower Murrine, Gay Massender’s Still Life Posy Vase Bead, and Ann Steenkiste’s Geodesic Spheres.
How it is used:
- Ikuyo Yamanaka How to Make Flower Murrine
- Practice building clean cylindrical base beads, then wrapping with transparent glass to control optical depth and edge definition.
- Use the cane-making sequence to refine heat control for even gathers and consistent cane diameter, then slice the cane into murrine to apply as floral elements on beads.
- Gay Massender Still Life Posy Vase Bead
- Use murrine chips to build small floral imagery, then add fine stringer drawing for linework and structure.
- Train your layering discipline by placing decoration in a planned order so the bead stays readable after gentle heat polishing.
- Ann Steenkiste Geodesic Spheres
- Learn to form a hollow base bead, then cut it into rings and use layout marks to guide consistent segmenting.
- Apply coldworking steps to true up edges and improve fit, then assemble the parts into sphere forms while learning where precision matters most for clean seams and symmetry.
- Women in Glass Gallery
- Use the gallery as a design library for color palettes, surface treatments, and form ideas, then translate one motif into a repeatable series at the torch.
