Author: g2000mtd

The difficulty of the fusing consists in controlling the cooking of the parts to avoid the appearance of the tensions in the material. For that, it is necessary to take into account the nature, the dimension of the piece and the thickness of glasses that you amalgamate. The compatibility of glasses: The used glasses must be compatible; for that, they must belong to the same category and have the same dilation coefficient. They are available in various forms: glass leaves, crushed glass of varied granulometry (calcinings), wire of glass (stringers). A more coloured glass overheats more. The temperature of the glasses is thus not identical. The tensions of the glass can be measured with a stressometer.

In 1935: They control the colour, the phases of dilation and retraction and lead finally to glass with fusion such as we know it today. About 1940: First artistic achievements, in particular those of Michael and Frances Higgins. Since 1980: The technique of the fusing is widespread almost in the whole world.

In 2005: creation of our workshop in Tunisia and beginning of research. Definition : The “fusionnage” or “fusing” consists in assembling already cut superimposed pieces of glass whose set is carried in an oven at its melting point to form only one homogeneous part. Glass obtained can be thermoformed (with a mould in order to obtain concave or convex forms). Oven being able to go up until 1000°C. are used for this technique.