There are stories floating around, no doubt apocryphal, of some glass worker who salvaged the original dichro from the space shuttles, and had it taken away from him, because its manufacture or perhaps even existance was top secret.
Nowadays, of course, you can send your glass item off to CBS to have it coated with the 20–40 metallic oxides that give dichroic glass its special quality: to reflect one color of light, while transmitting its complement—hence the name dichroic, or two-colored, glass.
I just luuurrves it. So here is a collection of pages about dichro—what kinds I use, what kinds of beads I make, even what failures I've had with the glitziest (and most expensive) glass I use.
Enjoy.
starting the new year with warmup beads in black, white & red. 01feb2021
red, yellow orange memory wire bracelet: 2021 reprise 15jan2021
The third version of a classic xmas charm bracelet. 02jan2021
2 of 3 cracked is a fail. 29apr2020
4 floral 1.25 lentils, 2 almost made 4/4... 21apr2020
guild xmas bracelet redux 10dec2020
Page's blue 2006 charm bracelet 11mar2020
orange dichro dead mouse 06may2020
Necklace for f2tY's nihongo tomodachi (Japanese friend). 16mar2020
A mouse went to Japan & came back home for repairs. 30oct2019
3 blue focals, made primarily for trades. page needs additional documenting 29apr2018
lotus raked dead mouse in orange and blue, with lapis and dichro fuse... 16apr2018
2017 purple floral dead mouse 04nov2019
dichro focal dead mouse 07nov2019
Bits'n'pieces make up a dead mouse. 05nov2019
green and pink bead curtain strand featuring Peggy Prielozny's beads. 20sep2017
new bead curtain strand in amber 19sep2017
golden green beadcurtain strand with fuming & dichro 26jun2017
Dead mouse featuring high silver bearing glass shards 10oct2016
Purple rosary. 22jan2016
Green and amber beadcurtain strand unites several legacy styles. 11jan2015
Purple and green plant hanger, a week long project. 25mar2014
green dichros, shown with source glass. Photographed 18jul2007. 18nov2017
Collects the 2008 glass bead pages. Still needs some add'l pix, titles, but page is outlined. Photographed 22jan08, edited 28apr14, needs to be revamped 2020 31jan2020
Duplicate? Includes solid dichros , (small designer beads of a small dichro-on-black cylinder cased in clear), jacketed dichro , and big gaudy dichro focals. 04jan2027
Sample beads in blue with larger holes. Includes dichro solids, double hollows, and bubbles. Originally posted 12feb07. 12feb2007
Sample of premium pink dichro solid with accompanying color strip. Oct 2006. 02dec2006
Sample of green/magenta dichro solid with accompanying color strip. Oct 2006. 01dec2006
My take on the big expensive gaudy bead . Updated with an unsuccessful new series from 2006 . 29nov2006
Collection of pages having to do with the small, designer clear-cased dichro solid beads —the only solid beads—I regularly make. 03dec2006
At this point, pages of dichro color strips used to make dichro solids. Really unfinished index, evidently.
Photo ref for cool colored dichro strips 16nov2006
These pages are references pix of the dichro I use , to help me recreate a bead, or figure out what name to call that blue-green I need more of... 24oct2006
Another reminder-to-self tutorial for making clear-cased solid dichros, since I keep forgetting the fine points. 09apr2006
My initial howto post for making dichro solids. Shows an assortment. 21may2005
2 multistrand necklaces by Page Brunner featuring floral vessel focals from 2004 11jan2023
Page dichro focal necklace 22may2004
From dots to dichro . Guess I shoulda called that new subdirectory florals, instead of floral_vase. Well, I'm not changing it now...! 22may2004
My take on the big expensive gaudy bead . Bead release keeps breaking on me, and so, in attempting to overcome this, I've keep making more. I could just buy heavier duty bead release, but no...Lots of new pix, 17mar04. (Original version of the index page.) 22may2004
Idiosyncratic wirewrapping , made during the 1990s; last update: 15sep02.
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