Filigree Twist Foglio - White P08609-P00015 The top is durable end-grain

The top is durable end-grain ash arranged to form a loosely repeating pattern

and red frit over a core of crystal clear glass

they hang from from hand-formed 18k gold ear wires

You can practically feel the fresh summer breeze coming through the open window in this charming pigment print of an original mixed-media collage

and a sunstone/moonstone matrix

Filigree Twist Foglio - White P08609-P00015 The top is durable end-grainThis blown glass vessel from Patchen's "Foglio" series is created with the cane technique. To make cane, Patchen encases a rod of white glass in molten clear glass then it is stretched 50 60 feet long, reducing its diameter to about the thickness of a pencil. After cooling, the long rod is cut into 6" lengths, reheated and rolled onto a molten glass bubble on a blowpipe. Closing the end creates a striped bubble which Patchen can then twist and