Carol Milne

Carol Milne wearing her Glass, ribbon & LED costume

This knitted glass costume, created by artist Carol Milne, was made to resemble entrelac knitting. It was made specially for the Glass Art Society "Glass Fashion show" (the brain child of Laura Donefer) in Corning, New York on June 11, 2016. Made of cast Gaffer Glass. The model is Kait Rhoads.

This was round one in entrelac knitting.  When I decided I would attach the pieces with zip ties, I redesigned my prototype, so the zip ties would be "invisible" - behind the knitting, and so the pieces were slightly lighter and smaller.

Foam core was used to make a mock-up pattern.  It's inflexible, like glass, but not fragile.

A silicone mold was used for the base, apple core, shape to ensure the pieces were identical and would all fit together.

Each entrelac piece is knitted individually in wax

Each piece is shaped over a silicone form. And the stitches are all soldered with molten wax to keep them in place.

The knit piece is soldered onto the apple core shaped base

The knitted piece needs to be soldered onto the frame on all sides.

Attaching a sprue (exit point for wax and entry point for glass) onto the entrelac form.

A flock of entrelac waxes set up three per reservoir - before making molds around the pieces.

Multiple entrelac molds in the kiln, with glass sitting in pots above them, waiting to be melted in.

The glass has melted into the molds.

Breaking away the mold material to reveal the entrelac glass pieces inside.

February 2016

Playing with color settings on the LED arduino controller

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