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Glass fusing is a glass fabrication technique which involves heating glass in a kiln until it reaches the point where it is soft, which allows the manipulation of the glass in a variety of ways. It is used in industrial glass manufacturing to produce specialised glass laminates but is best known as a ‘creative’ process.
Due to the good malleability of nichrome wire it is easily formed onto various shapes and latices that can be fused between layers of glass, for artistic effect, in the kiln.
Nichrome wire is also the perfect choice for fusing into glass objects where some kind of mounting mechanism is required like a hanging mount in a wall plaque or the attachments in glass jewellery. Although the nichrome wire discolours, becoming dull, during the firing process it is easily polished to regain its appearance.