Glass is fascinating. Often it is colourless and brittle, yet in the right hands, it can take on an endless array of shapes in intricate, eye-pleasing designs. This is what five junior reporters learned at a workshop co-organised by the Hong Kong Glass Arts Development Society.
They experimented with glass fusing and watched artist Fanny Mak Sau-ying demonstrate a technique called lampwork.
Glass fusing
Glass can be made into all kinds of different forms. It can be fashioned into drinks bottles or moulded into plates.
It can also be reused. Glass shards can be used to make tiles or fused together to create delicate designs with a shiny surface.
In our case, all it took was some 30 minutes inside a kiln heated to just under 1,000 degrees Celsius and another 30-45 minutes for the cooling process - and we had a simple piece of glass jewellery.