Topic: Iridised superlight item

[Ivo]

Does it mean I can apply iridescence from a spraycan onto anything? 

[aa]

http://krylon.com/main/product_template.cfm?levelid=5&sub_levelid=8&productid=1863&content=product_details

 Don't know whether it works and I wouldn't breathe it in, but go for it!

[Glen]

Don't use a brillo pad on it though!

[Anne]

Or a dishwasher! 

[Max]

I thought these Chinese borosilicate candlesticks might be interesting. 

http://bkglass.en.alibaba.com/product/50162854/50937938/Glass_Candle_Holders/Candle_Holders/showimg.html 

[josordoni]

Is Borosilicate usually very light, Max?

[Max]

I only really put that link here because of the mention of borosilicate, the thinness of the glass and the shape of Ivo's candlesticks - although the ones in my link aren't iridisised obviously.  I'm not certain if borosilicate is always light, but I was thinking along the lines of test-tubes and my Pyrex thin glass lamps that are made to resist heat and could possibly be made by lampwork.

Perhaps someone could answer whether standard Pyrex oven dishes are borosilicate too...it would seem that they must be. 

Edit:  Pyrex ovenware is soda lime glass now apparently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrex

[aa]

Usually in glass collecting terms borosilicate tends to be light, because the artists that work with it tend to be lampworkers* working on a scale that is suited to many of its properties. But those same properties are also useful for other things such as cooking and Pyrex, which is borosilicate is definitely not light.

*There are exceptions and it is possible to blow borosilicate straight from the furnace.
 

[josordoni]

Thanks, I am assuming though that the little light light phials that Bimini made would have been soda?

[Ivo]

Thanks everybody for rekindling the discussion. As far as I know Bimini is soda glass. Part of that production was made at Venini's where sodaglass is standard.