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Glass Onion Bead Company was founded in 1990 by husband and wife team David Johnson and Debbie Austin-Johnson. While starting out as a stained glass studio, we have evolved into a bead store with the largest selection in Northeast Wisconsin. We offer a wide variety of classes with award winning bead instructors.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Fold Formed Leaves

Dave has been beating his brains out upstairs in the studio.  The fruit of his labor has been fold formed leaves.

Fold forming is a technique that uses thin sheet copper that is cut, folded, hammered, hammered and hammered.  The hammering is done in precise areas.  First on the leaf center and then many hammering blows are places on the leaf edge with a small hammer.  They are kind of cool and could be made into some fun pieces.  If you are interested in a class in fold formed leaves, please let us know and we would be happy to schedule it.  Then you too, can get hammered.

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  1. KimMay 16, 2013 at 9:23 PM

    Love the leaves they are really cool. Of course I would love to take a class :-)

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