Create Your Own: Kilncarved Tiles

This kit is a great introduction to fibre paper and kilncarving, a cost-effective way to add some special effects to your glass designs.

Kilncarving is a great technique that combines glass fusing and slumping to give a bas relief or carved effects to your glass work.  Just cut the desired image or pattern into the Fibre Paper with the craft knife to create a shallow 'mould', then stack the glass on top of the cut paper before firing in your kiln. The glass melts into the mould, taking on the contours of the pattern.

You can see how glass reacts with heat at various temperatures and also achieve some very beautiful shapes and patterns with only minimal glass cutting or fusing:

Image courtesy of Bullseye Glass Co.

• 3 sheets of 3mm fibre paper 15 x 20cm
• 2 sheets of 6mm fibre paper 15 x 20cm 
• 1 craft knife
• 1 sheet of Bullseye gold iridised on clear glass 1101.38 10 x 10cm
• 1 sheet of Bullseye rainbow iridised on black glass 0100.31 10 x 10cm
• 2 sheets of Bullseye 3mm clear tekta glass 10 x 10cm
• Bullseye tip sheet on kiln carving
• Warm Glass instructions
• Warm Glass template