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Welcome to Nomad Crafts Etc, here is a bit of information about our
business, our art and our lives
(you may want to pull up a chair)-it's
a bit long-but well worth the read!
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☀ Who IS Nomad Crafts Etc?
☮ Nomad Crafts Etc is a lampwork business that is owned and operated by
husband/wife team- Janelle (who is in our avatar picture at the moment)
and Jason Ethridge.
☮ We have been lampworking for about 3 years now.
☮ Nomad Crafts Etc is our full time business-we take great pride in our
art, our craft, our artistry, our skill-our work. We are very lucky to
be able to do what we love and make a living at it.
☮ Nomad Crafts Etc has been an operating business since January 2009, we are a licensed business in the state of New Mexico.
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☀ What is OUR specialty?
☮ Jason does most of the hard glass work and Janelle does most of the
soft glass work but we tend to intertwine and often work on larger
projects together.
☮ We make a variety of items:
Marbles / Paperweights / Cabochons / Beads of all Shapes, Sizes, Colors
and Designs / Jars / Vases / Figures / Pendants / Vessels / Tobacco
Pipes / Hummingbird Feeders / Swizzle Sticks / Sculptures oh and so
much more!
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☀ What IS Lampwork?
☮ We get this question all the time and usually it begins with us
telling someone what we do for a living and them asking us if we really
work on lamps-no, no, no...that is not it at all!
So here is the best explanation that we have come up with:
☮ Lampworking is a type of glasswork that uses a gas fueled torch to
melt rods and tubes of clear and colored glass. Once in a molten state,
the glass is formed by blowing and shaping with tools and hand
movements.
☮ Lampworking is a type of glasswork that uses a gas fueled torch to
melt rods and tubes of clear and colored glass. Once in a molten state,
the glass is formed by blowing and shaping with tools and hand
movements.
☮ Lampwork is the art of shaping molten glass into just about any
desired object using a torch. The torch is fueled by gas and the flame
that comes from the torch is so hot it will melt your everything off.
☮ Here is a tidbit from what Wikipedia says about lampworking:
"Lampworking is a type of glasswork that uses a gas fueled torch to
melt rods and tubes of clear and colored glass. Once in a molten state,
the glass is formed by blowing and shaping with tools and hand
movements."
☮ Lampwork is also known as torchwork or flamework.
☮ Lampworking is not the same thing as glass blowing-for the most part.
Glass blowing is done in a glory hole(a VERY large oven) and is usually
what most people think of when they hear about glass art.
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☀ What are some Important Lampwork Terms YOU should know?
☮ Anneal - This is the process of properly heating and cooling the glass so that it is sturdy and doesn't break.
You want to make sure that the glass you buy-whether it be beads,
marbles, jars etc is properly kiln annealed(look for those type of
words)
☮ COE - This is the type of glass used to make whatever the object is
at hand. There is Hard Glass like that used in our marbles or jars- COE
33 which is also known as Borosilicate and Pyrex. There is also Soft
Glass like that used in our beads- COE 104 or 90/96.
☮ Bead Release - This is a substance that prevents glass from sticking
to a mandrel when we are making beads. It is sort of like hard clay.
The bead release is a bit tricky to get off the beads(or other items),
but we make sure that our beads are 99% free from bead release(also a
phrase to watch out for when buying lampwork items).
☮ You can find many more terms out there on the web-these are the 3
most used terms in our shop and it is important to us to share what
they mean.
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☀ What do We do when We aren't lampworking and running a business?
☮ Well, we are the parents of 2 beautiful girls who are 9 and 5. They keep us pretty busy.
We love to do family activities and are always on the go.
Friday nights you can find us together on the couch watching movies and
eating popcorn-but on Saturday morning we are out in our yard(in the
beautiful Monzano mountains) gardening, jumping on the trampoline or
playing with the dogs.
We also like to go for hikes, road trips and other fun adventures!
During the winter we are working on indoor projects, doing crafts and reading.
☮ We have 4 pets- 2 dogs who are Rosey and Kisses and 2 Rats who are Pizza Man and Remmy.
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