Glass Bead Lattaccino Stringer

Video Transcript

"All right, and there you have the Goldstone. What you're going to do now is work this glass very slowly in the flame, about three inches out from the head, and you're going to melt all of the stripes into the base glass. The whole time you need to make sure you're rotating your rod so it doesn't get top heavy, so gravity does not take over. There's nothing worse than having hot glass land in your lap. When you have all of the stripes melted in, you're going to essentially pull a stringer, except you're going to keep rotating the rod of glass as you pull. What you end up with is called a latticino, or a twistie, which has various different colors of glass twisted into one another that you can use for various effects. In my example later on I'm going to use it for hair, but I've seen people use it for circus decorations, for clown decorations. After you twist some of your glass off and it's cooled down you can take that piece right back into the flame, heat it up again, and continue twisting where you led off. So again, you're just going to keep rotating your base rod. You're going to grab it with your tweezers, take it out of the flame, and as you pull you're going to twist at the same time."