Knitted Glass ... Lost-Wax Casting ...

 

Archaeology is an amazing discipline … we are learning so much about past lives … and while I was looking into the lost-wax casting method, via the bronze-age site in Cambridgeshire, the houses had been built on stilts above a riverine area about 3,000 years ago, …

"Purple Reigns" by Carol Milne

... I was led to this wonderful sculpture: “Purple Reigns” by Carol Milne – a Canadian/American artist, who is best known for her Knitted Glass Work – glass sculptures utilising the lost-wax process.

This was a winning entry at a
Japanese Exhibition of Glass in 2010

She created this technique of 'how to knit glass' – which is set out in her Wiki link below … just so easy?!?!

Personally I've never liked knitting, I guess because back in the day we used wool – and that irritated my skin … eventually having realised what gave me the sweats … I eliminated wool from my wardrobe. Sorry!

Carol Milne

I am always totally in awe of creative artists like Carol Milne who can imagine these kinds of works …

... I don't think Prince's Purple Rain had anything to do with my curiosity re wax-casting … but we'll (and I definitely won't) never know!

Prince's 'Purple Rain' found
within the album
'Prince and the Revolution'

As my eclectic wanderings have taken me – nothing like a 3,000 year old wander!! The links below give you lots more information … I do find knitting glass: amazing!!

Carol Milne - via Wiki ... 

Lost-Wax Casting ... 

Thanks for visiting …

Hilary Melton-Butcher

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