{"product_id":"murrine-designing-loading-and-slicing-patterned-cane","title":"Murrine: Designing, Loading and Slicing Patterned Cane","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 51 page pattern manual for making murrine in a vitrigraph kiln, from designing an arrangement to slicing sections that look like siblings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMurrine is four thousand years old and traditionally needs a furnace, a glory hole and years of hot shop training. This guide covers the home studio route, and it starts with the one calculation that decides whether a pattern will work before you build it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat is inside\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe reduction factor: the arithmetic that tells you in advance whether a detail will survive being drawn down, and why smaller arrangements pulled to heavier cane read better\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eColour behaviour that affects pattern work, including which glasses shift on remelt and which pairings smear\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe four loading geometries, and why only three of them produce a cross section pattern\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA pattern library across five families: concentric, radial, floral, figurative and abstract\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTen complete patterns built step by step, in ascending difficulty, each with its palette, assembly order and the specific failure to watch for\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePacking technique, because voids become bubbles and hollow cane\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow the pull for murrine differs from pulling stringer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrading cane before you cut it, consistent slicing, and truing the faces\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUsing murrine in fused work, with bubble and devitrification control\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA diagnostic table for disappointing patterns, design worksheets, planning grids and three fully logged sessions including one failure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eAssumes a working rig and some experience of pulling plain cane.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vitrigraph Institute","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58800353476992,"sku":"MURRINE-GUIDE","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1014\/8492\/1216\/files\/02._Murrine_-_Designing_Loading_and_Slicing_Patterned_Cane-1200.jpg?v=1787933301","url":"https:\/\/vitrigraphinstitute.myshopify.com\/products\/murrine-designing-loading-and-slicing-patterned-cane","provider":"Vitrigraph Institute","version":"1.0","type":"link"}