Glass knitting - phrase unusual, like the technique itself. This is what hooked a look. Although what is wondering if the glass can be used for weaving, as Eric Markov and Tom Norris do, then why it is impossible to use for knitting.
Glass processing technique, which in 2006 was developed by Carol Milne (Karol Milne), cannot be called knitting, she simply joined her two hobbies in it: knitting and love for cast sculpture. And as a result of numerous experiments, glass knitting appeared.
Honestly, I was interested in not the work itself, but the question is how it does it?
After all, the melting point of the glass is quite high, and the glass does not save elasticity for so long to have to tie something.
The process of such, the wax model is the mold of a refractory material, then using hot steam, the wax is melted, and an empty cavity in the form of a knitted model is obtained.
In this cavity, pieces of glass are placed and heat up to the desired temperature, approximately 815 degrees Celsius and the molten glass takes the desired shape, after that the model is cooled within a few weeks, and then carefully removed from the casting form.
Karol Miln's glass knitted sculptures is like a social structure metaphor.
"Individual strands are weak and brittle, but strong when they are connected with each other .."
From my point of view, "Sheepbank is not worth it", the result is not worth the complex painstaking preparatory work, but, as they say, how many people, so many opinions, in Japan at the international glass show, its glass knitting was awarded a silver premium.
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