Pâte de Verre: Techniques

Glass Art Society Technical Journal
pp. 6-9

: "Pate de Verre": pp. 1-18.

This report covers the first stage of research into the techniques of Pate de verre, carried out during the summer of 1980, at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts

Directions on how to work with pâte de verre.

For making thin walled vessel forms up to 20 cm. in height.

Book I: The historical background. An overview of pâtes-de-verre ; An introduction to Amalric Walter ; Where Walter sits as an artist ; Walter’s subject matter ; The snake motif ; Definitions
Book II. The scientific enquiry. Walter’s colour palette examined ; The colour palette breakdown ; Walter’s 5 basic colours ; My use of the Argy-Rousseau notebooks ; Uranium in Walter’s work ; Iron and zinc ; XRF examination on 3 pieces from the Broadfield House collection of Walter ; Uranium into glass
Book III. My personal work. My credo, the antecedents of my work and the influences made upon it ; Why I have chosen to work in glass ; Placing my work in a contemporary context ; The formation of my current work and the arrival of its subject matter ; Simon’s experience at Inferno ; The body of my personal work

ill. Notes:Step-by-step instructions for making thin-walled glass pieces similar to those made in the Art Nouveau era.