What's Fused Glass ?
Glass fusing is a 4000 year old technique - the original glass-shaping technique - that was invented and used by the Mesopotamians and Egyptians for centuries.
In modern times, we use sheet glass, crushed glass and powdered glass to create designs arranged and stacked while cold. In this way, the inital stage is like Stained Glass work.
These designs in glass are placed carefully in a kiln, similar to a ceramics kiln, and slowly fired up to temperatures of 1400 to 1500 degrees F.
At these temperatures, the glass is like taffy and the separate pieces will fuse to each other. After careful annealing and slowly reducing the temperature, what you now have is a single piece of glass with your coloured glass design embedded.