Other Glass Resources
Education
Warm Glass UK has a comprehensive education programme of Beginners Classes through to Master Classes which can be booked on our website.
Frit Happens Forum (Virtual UK)
This is the main UK forum for bead making and kiln working, full of advice and useful news and views.
Warm Glass Board (Virtual USA)
Brad Walker's USA based bulletin board, Unparallelled source of information devoted to everything Glass. A great site for information and lively debate.
Warm Glass Tutorial (Virtual USA)
Brad Walker takes you through fusing, slumping and kiln-forming techniques.
Royal College of Art (UK)
The department exists to encourage skilled practice and creative thinking in the two media of glass and ceramics. We feel that there are interests and outcomes common to both, and students are encouraged to experiment across a range of material possibilities.
University of Wolverhampton (UK)
Wolverhampton's Glass Department now provides a rich, practice-based learning environment and workshops that are amongst the best in Europe.
University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UK)
The Glass Department at UWTSD can draw on sixty years of practice in Architectural Glass Design and Application. It is well equipped with a range of facilities suitable for hot and cold glass processing.
Edinburgh College of Art (UK)
Edinburgh College of Art has an international reputation as one of the most successful independent colleges in the UK.
West Dean College (UK)
We offer students short, introductory courses and longer courses for developing their skills. We also include here, for the first time, the exciting process of fusing glass.
National Glass Centre (UK)
The UK National Glass Centre based in Sunderland. Its aim is to develop and promote excellence in the art and industry of glass and houses studios for a range of artists working with glass.
Exemplar Glass (UK)
Classes throughout the year for beginners and improvers in fusing, casting, bead making, dichroic jewellery and stained glass; taught in small groups in a well equipped studio. Regularly scheduled masterclasses with internationally known instructors. Bespoke tuition and private courses a speciality.
Westminster Adult Education Service (UK)
Westminster Adult Education Service (WAES) is one of the largest providers of adult education in London offering full-time and part-time study in the daytime, evenings and at weekends..
Mid Cornwall School of Jewellery (UK)
You can learn jewellery making and have a great holiday at the same time!
Bullseye Glass Resource Centre (USA)
The Bullseye Resource Centre offers classes in beginners to intermediate glassworking methods with a primary focus on kiln glass and torchwork.
The Glass Furnace (Turkey)
The Glass Furnace is an international glass centre built in the green fields of Black Sea Region.
Pilchuck (USA)
Pilchuck has become the largest, most comprehensive educational centre in the world for artists working in glass.
Associations
The Artists Information Company
a-n's mission is to stimulate and support contemporary visual arts practice and affirm the value of artists in society, subscription includes AIR membership, £5m Public and Product Liability insurance, full online access.
Craft Insurance
An insurance scheme designed specifically for crafts people, craft groups and crafts clubs in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
The Contemporary Glass Society
The Contemporary Glass Society is a non-profit making limited company established to encourage excellence in glass as a creative medium and develop a greater awareness and appreciation of contemporary glass worldwide.
Heart of England Glass
Heart of England Glass is a network of Artists and Organisations based in the West Midlands.
The Glass Art Society
The Glass Art Society (GAS) is an international non-profit organisation whose purpose is to encourage excellence, to advance education, to promote the appreciation and development of the glass arts, and to support the worldwide community of artists who work with glass.
Glass Beadmakers
A UK-based society for bead-makers to share and disseminate information about making glass beads.
Bead Society of Great Britain
The Society is open to all those who have an appreciation, either private or professional, of beads ancient and modern.
Guild of Glass Engravers
The Guild acts as a forum for the teaching and discussion of engraving techniques and new developments from around the world as well as acting as a source of information to the public.
British Society of Master Glass Painters
The British Society of Master Glass Painters, founded in 1921, is Britain's only organisation devoted exclusively to the art and craft of Stained Glass.
Crafts Council
The UK's national organisation devoted to promoting UK contemporary craft. Funded by The Arts Council.
Arts Council England
Arts Council England works to get more art to more people in more places. They develop and promote the Arts across England, acting as an independent body at arm's length from Government.
Cohesion
Cohesion is the network for glassmakers originating in the North of England.
Society of Glass Technology
The Society of Glass Technology encourages the cross fertilization and practical application of ideas for the benefit of the whole glass community.
Scottish Glass Society
The Society promotes the development of the art and craftsmanship of glass-making in its many variations in Scotland.
Glass Australia
A guide to glass working techniques and suppliers. Also includes a guide to the works of many Australian glass artists.
Suppliers
Bullseye Glass Co
Bullseye makes glass in over 1000 varieties; their specialty is kiln glass where they are recognised as the world's leading manufacturer. Warm Glass UK is a Bullseye Kiln-Glass Resource Centre Preferred Partner in the UK.
CBS Dichroic - Coatings by Sandberg
Coatings by Sandberg (CBS), our main supplier of high quality dichroic glass. Warm Glass UK is the CBS Dichroic main European distributor.
Skutt Ceramic Products
Manufacturer of prestigious Skutt Kilns including the Hotstart Pro and Firebox 14. Warm Glass UK is the sole UK distributor for Skutt glass kilns.
Paragon Kilns
Manufacturer of the SC2, the excellent starter kiln. Warm Glass UK is a distributor for Paragon USA.
Nabertherm
Nabertherm is one of the leading manufacturers of large glass kilns. Warm Glass UK supplies the whole product range from Nabertherm and is their main UK distributor.
Colour de Verre
Colour de Verre manufacture reusable casting moulds and Warm Glass UK is their main UK distributor.
Robert Lear Kiln Services
Studios
- Craft Fusion (Holdsworthy, Devon)
- Di-Namic Designs (Torbay, Devon)
- Enamel Art (Wrington, Bristol)
- Fired Creations (Horsham, West Sussex)
- Fusion Glass Art (Cartmel, Cumbria)
- Glass and Silver Jewellery (Glasgow)
- Glass on Glass (Kingstone, Herefordshire)
- Glass Farthing
- Green Wood Crafts (Hutton-le-Hole, York)
- Helix Glass (Crowthorne, Berkshire)
- Jeannette Therrien (Marlborough, Wiltshire)
- JM Dichroics (Doncaster)
- Light Kiln (Cardiff)
- Lynette Wrigley (London)
- Martin Cheek Mosaic (Broadstairs, Kent)
- Purple Kitten Designs (Stockport)
- Radka Art Glass (Czech Republic)
- Roxy Denny Glass (Cockermouth, Cumbria)
- Sally Moore Glass (Scotland)
- Sarah Myatt Glass
- Studio JH
- Stained Glass Centre (Scarborough)
- TC Jewellery (Preston, Lancashire)
- Vibrant Glass Art (Calne, Wiltshire)
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