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Glass Art in Vesilahti
Anyone who wants to join in the fun of making glass art, can do so at Tuulas tower in Vesilahti.
Give yourself a boost on a gloomy day Tuula can help you make something nice and memorable out of glass. With clear or opal glass. She can instruct you in an hour how to make glass art. You make on the spot then take it with you when you leave. What a feeling of accomplishment you get after you see what you can make out of glass.
The tower has a good selection of ready made products worth coming to see. That is where you can buy glass products like...
• Decorative glass - Angels, Butterlies,Flowers,Birds, small glass lanterns
• Napkin/serviett holders
• Wall and desktop clocks
• Mirrors containing colorfully designs of glass, lamp shades for home decoration of course..
• Leaded glass art work for doors or windows for home decrations. You can also custom order colors shapes etc. Or... order products pre-made according to you liking and dimensions. The imagination is the limit.
• A bring back a travel gift out of glass. A very valuable gift item.
You can buy quality Finnish designed and built glass art handwork...
And if that is not enough...
Participate in differents mini or extensive Artesan courses.
Glasswork artist courses include...
 Copper Foil Glasswork
Gets you acquainted with the basic tools related to using the copper-foil method. The Copper-foil method or also known as the Tiffany method. 30 hrs.
Leaded Glass Art
Create a mirror, or stationary mounted piece like a glass window for your sauna room or window. Fun! 30 hrs.
Order custom made interior designed glass leaded window, mirror, or lampshades - All according to your specifications.
If you ever want to make your own glass lamp chandelier, you need to of course bring your own lamp base with you. 30 hrs
For advanced students.
Glass Mosaics...Ahhh!
In this course you can create a frame of glass mosaics used as a picture frame. No need for previous experience.
Melting Glass for small handcraft
glasswork.
Learn the basics about melting glass with Tuulas special glass melting course. 5 hrs.
Inside the tower workshop
Grey tinted glass feet for holding envelopes, serviets, napkins...Do not worry, no need to wash the glass feet...they don't smell.
 These grey glass feet were made using the copper foil method and weigh 160 grams.
Since custom made glasswork is a highly valued and sought after gift. Gifts such as the 'Feet' or 'Angels' are easy to send by mail.
Inside the work shop tower, Tuula has plenty of working space. Room for 10 people or more. Grinding machines, and plenty of raw material to use.
 Tuula's reputation...
The workshop has pieces from the remains of hundreds of projects. Tuula never wastes glass.
She just creatively makes new creations out of all the rests. Here are examples...
Apples hanging from a branch.
Customer comments:"She has very unique art work and style..."
Tuula is a leader in the field...
Two of her customers actually went on to study glass as a major...They are now glass artisans.
Here it goes...Let us makes some glass art !
First we gather up some pre-cut glass pieces wich are already sanded, then solder them together. That's it. Voila' that's all folks.
What we need for this easy and fun example:
- Pre cut/shaped glass
- Then the edges are sanded down.
- Wrap the edges with copper tape
- Edges are soldered together with tin.
The copper tape already surrounds the pre-cut and pre-sanded shapes. 
 Other 'blue' piece of the glass wait to be used. Copper tape aready in place.
Colored glass on windows and door
Tuula uses the method of putting colored glass on windows and doors, Brilliant!!
Send Tuula a drawing or scetch with dimensions of your favorite window or door that you want to contain the glass design. She will draw up a final version, and with your approval create any size shape, dimension, design and color fitting your window/door.
These pictures show how she gets the glass and lead together.
First: With a special forming tool, she staightens the tin to fit the sides of the glass pieces.
Then: Joins two pieces of colored glass together. The tin becomes the supporting frame.
The tin frames the colored glass pieces. After this she uses solder to join the tin. The melting also help form the glass together.
If you live far away...Fine! She often sends her custom art by mail, and since most of her glass art is light, ships easiely with no damage.
Glass birds look nice outside
Glass Birds hanging on a birch branch
Where is Tuulas glass art tower? See it on a map. Look for the Pink Ball-like icon on the second map of this map pageFor more information contact: Satu Karvinene-mail: satu.karvinen"at"vesilahti.fi Lindinkuja 1, 37470 Vesilahti Phone: Use 050 389 5265 calling within Finland When calling from outside of Finland use the country code like this: +358 50 389 5265, without the zero. Go from this page: "Glass Art" to: "Main Page"
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