Sparkly effect

[Evadark]

Before I started fusing my own diachroic I bought lots from other makers. One was able to produce a wonderful sparkly effect that despite several tries I have yet to reproduce. On the attached picture I have numbered two cabs, 1 and 2 both show this sparkly effect.

Any ideas on how to achieve this?
Marie

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[Zeldazog]

I had some plain (not patterned) dichroic on black - these came out all sparkly like that.  I will try and post the pics if I can find them!

Because its on black, they only show the reflected colour, and not the transmitted also - so my guess is its that perhaps?

[Caroline]

it's just plain dichoric, the same thing happens if it's on a clear backing, they patterned stuff dosen't produce this effect

[Evadark]

So if I used cyan/teal for example on a black back? Do you need a clear top layer? Just seems whn I try putting diachoric on plain backgrounds the effect is more matte than sparkly so I wondered if they had put an irradescent layer on top or something.

Marie

[Caroline]

oh yeah i forgot to say you need a clear layer

[handmadeheaven.biz]

dichroic is applied to one side of the glass (usually black or clear) so when you use it, having the dicho up or dichro down makes a difference in the final look. try some experiments and you'll see what i mean

[Zeldazog]

When I used some plain (it was violet I think) on black  it was still quite sparkly whether under clear or not.

Perhaps it just varies on the dichroic itself?

This was a little bit of it, as you can see it went very sparkly.  I would say it was more subtle when it was fired without clear on top, less glossy, but definitely still sparkly; more of a shimmer than a glitter?

[Evadark]

I can see now how if a top clear layer was added that might create the effect. Maybe I have been putting my diachroic wrong side up all this time . Will try some of the ideas and see what happens thanks!

Marie

[handmadeheaven.biz]

if you tilt the dichroic in the light you can usually see which edge of the glass it has been applied to.

[Evadark]

Just took some new ones out of the kiln and it has worked on some. So will have to make notes next time so I know which way I did it to get effect. Thanks again, Marie