Interchangeable Lampwork Bead Kit by Barbara Becker Simon

Barbara Becker Simon teaches you how to lampwork glass to fine silver flared bead cores to make these unique interchangeable earrings, an ideal platform to showcase your lampworked beads.

Barbara has been a jeweler for over thirty-five years and a lampwork/bead artist since 1996. She received a Master of Fine Arts Degree in metalwork and jewelry from the University of Wisconsin. She has shared her award winning talents through her teaching duties at the University of Wisconsin, Menomie, and Iowa State University. She also held a position of professor of Fine Arts at Edison Community College, Ft Myers, FL. Her work has garnered national reputation and has been seen in many galleries and publications.

This Kit Includes

• Barbara Becker Simon's Step-by-Step Tutorial (4 Pages, Full Color)
• 3 pairs - Fine Silver Flared 1/4" Bead Cores
• 1 pair - Interchangeable Sterling Silver Leverback Earrings

Other Supplies You Will Need (not included)

• Lampworking eye wear
• Torch
• Graphite Paddle
• Kiln
• Bead release
• 1/8" Mandrel
• White enamel
• Intense black stringer
• Glass etching liquid or paste (optional)
• Soda Lime glass rod pulled into a stringer diameter (approx 2-3mm)
• Light colored transparent rods will allow the brightly finished fines silver bead core to glow through (This bead uses light aqua transparent.) Opaque glass can also be used.