Japanese lampwork

wow, they are so delicate!

guess it isn't a huge surprise that japaneese lampworkers might make very high-quality lampwork though :)

marisa2

JoAnn Paules wrote:

We tend to think of Japanese things being mass-produced. I have several Japanese websites saved in My Favorites.

I love the Japanese artists. Their work always amazes me.

Beautiful. There was a Japanese lampworker at B&B - gorgeous stuff. I'll need to find the card and see if she's got a website.

B.

Oh wow, those are droolable! The one at the top left... WHOA!

-Kalera

Do they buy or make their canes? Looks like a lot of them are using the same/very similar flower canes, but one guy had an anime character-- Doreiman (sp?)--cane bead: the character details are so fine and precise, it looks like it (the cane) had to have been "machine made" somehow. So do the flowers, actually....

Are such pre-made glass canes available to lampworkers here? (I know there are PC ones...). They only glass canes I've seen "for sale" have been ones made "by hand" by lampworkers-- usually rather limited in design and quantity, and they tend to be, ummm, "wobbly-lined" rather than precise. Kaytee "Simplexities" on

Yes, canes are available here...they're heck of expensive, because they do have to be handmade and it's a pretty specific skill/talent. I think that, just like in the US, there are some cane artisans that sell to lampworkers, so you'll see the same cane from several different artists.

You see some stupendous cane work from Italy, made by true masters. A lot of flower cane (millefiori) sold in the US is from Italy. There are a handful of masters in the US as well, but cane work is really still in its infancy here.

Japanese lampwork tends to be... perfect. And very, very expensive. $80-$120 for a medium-sized focal. But GORGEOUS!

-Kalera

I didn't have this link nor have I seen this page before, thanks.

I just love Japanese lampwork, it is so perfect and delicate. I told myself one bead at the Gathering and it had to be a Japenese bead.

JoAnn, could you share your links?

Lara

I have scores of links. Most are "how-to" sites using Swarovski crystals.

Their crafts in general seem to be. Even the "loving hands at home" type. Even the KITS for some of their projects-- ones that put cheapo plastic doodads in with silks and porcelein parts.... I think they're the only industrialized nation that really respects artists-- they licence artists, and certify them by how advanced they are within their specialty. And declare certain ones "National Treasures". During the Meiji reforms, samurai were encouraged to go into some sort of art/craft as a profession, since they were no longer needed as "knights".

On the otherhand, med techs need only on the job training and a dr willing to hire them.... (US requires certification, which usually requires a bacculaureate and a year of internship).

I used to get one of the crafts magazines that was tied to a NHK "homemakers" program (something like PBS)-- exquisite projects, requiring scads of time and multiple skills (even the "kids' projects")... and intended only for one time, temporary display. Like a Girls' Day set of beaded dolls, done with galvanized Delicas in square st... and a "doll clay" head (still not sure what that is-- it's not PC). These things weren't little, either-- the "bodies" were folded sheets of bead fabric about 6" long, and maybe the same in width. And they toss out such things at the end of the "season".... One of my co-workers at the Japanese Garden says it's because Japanese are a people with a chronic problem of too much time on their hands.... Kaytee "Simplexities" on

Can you send them to me? :-D ~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

The martial artist I respect most is Japanese. Kazuko's first "form" is Calligraphy. She also was US senior women's Karate Champ, sells her acrylics for ten of thousands, and is the most gentle and empathetic woman I've ever met.

Tina

"Kaytee" wrote ...

Sure. Let me review th list. I've found some of them are 404 already.