Hobby Ceramicraft brings you the exclusive Italian Murano Glass to introduce into your studio.

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Glass is becoming an important new and additional item on offer in many Contemporary Studios across the world.
Working with it has much of the same magic as creating a decorated and fired ceramic piece, that timeless feeling that your creation once subjected to the magic firing of the kiln will have the ability to exist for centuries!
It is an exciting moment when you see the results of your efforts as they have emerged from your "furnace"; and, like your ceramics, it is one that few people will be able to go away and repeat in their own home, unless they are hooked enough to make the rather big investment in their own kiln.
Working, (or playing!), with glass is not difficult. Again, it is much like decorative ceramics, you can get very delightful results starting at a simple level. Once hooked you could continue by making an almost infinite number of small items of jewellry, novelty pieces, and decorations; or you could move on into the field of large, exotic, expensive and valuable major works of art. This would require gaining more knowledge and skills, just as happens with fine ceramics.
Just start by encouraging customers to try "playing" a few glass items, and see where the excitement takes you!

So where do YOU start with glass?

A quick search on the web will bring up a host of glass suppliers, many very good no doubt, but they are specialist suppliers to the enthusiastic glass studios and major glass artists. Glass stocking is a minefield of various co-efficients of expansion, (again just as is ceramics with its crazing and shivering if you get it wrong). With glass if you get it wrong the effects are immediate and SHATTERING!
Where Hobby Ceramicraft is different is that we are extremely knowledgeable of the Ceramic Studio business, of the kilns you use in this business, and what you can and cannot do in them. We know how best to introduce glass projects alongside your existing bisque business; how to do it effectively, appeallingly, and in a profitable and successful way.
The glass we introduce you to is the best known world famous Venetian Murano Glass. Made only on one island outside Venice it is renown for its rich colours.
The glass we introduce you to is available in many forms, sheet, thin rods or "spaghetti", granules, flakes, or delicate patterened millifiori.
Most importantly,
The glass we introduce you to ALL has the same coefficient of expansion.Other glass supplies are in a range of different expansions, these are not intercompatible.
Murano glass is all CE 104, all that we sell can be safely intermixed together. Simple!
Naturally we support the glass with classes to teach you how to use it, how to introduce to your customers, as well as paints to further decorate it, tools to fashion it, and a range of Paragon kilns should you wish to add a dedicated kiln for your glass items.
This might be a small and inexpensive model, for fast firing small items without having to tie up your larger kilns; or a larger model with elements in the lid if you want to venture into making larger items.
Below are pages from our hobby Colorobbia glass catalogue, but the best introduction by far is having a chat to Jane or Matthew, and signing up for the next one day introduction seminar.