Coloured coaster from bottle glass using powdered glass pigment: red and blue @ 5% by weight

Process & Production

Waste glass has been collected, cleaned, crushed, and sieved into a powdered sized glass cullet before the powdered glass mixed with special glass frits of the primary colours (red, yellow, blue) of an to create a range of assorted colours. The mixture of glass and frits placed in a ceramic mould and fired at in a flatbed kiln. The texture ranges from highly texture to smooth.

This sample has a mixture of yellow and blue @ 5% by weight

The glass undergoes a special firing schedule that transforms the glass from a glassy transparent material into a crystalline material that looks and behaves more like a stone or a ceramic material. The glass material is still hydrophobic and does not absorb any water. It is no longer transparent but has aesthetic features that can be semi-transparent.

Fusion using temperature between 800-900degree Celsius.