SuperNova - A beautiful dark transparent purple glass with silver!!! Hues of peacock blues, greens and yellows develop in a reduction flame. Two shades of purple base glass - dark and regular light. Both shades produce the same results.

I was able to achieve the results you see in the beads below easily by melting the glass in a ‘slight’ reducing flame. As you wind the glass on the rod you start to see the reaction and colors develop. Once I had the effect I wanted, I went back to a normal flame. Had I wanted more reaction, I would have warmed the bead in a reduction flame till I had the depth of the colors I wanted.

Glass - SuperNova with Transparent Dark Purple melted in dots (notice how the SuperNova dominates the dark purple?)

Glass - Moss Green-Grey, SuperNova & the dots are Effetre Silver Plum and Moss Green-Grey

Another method is the one that Carol Anne Beckman uses. At her work station in the factory in Lauscha, Carol Anne melted and twisted the end of the glass rod with pliers. Then she flattened this large gather and decorated it with a stringer she had pulled earlier (not from the twisted glass, but just a stringer pulled from the rod before she started the twisting process). Finally she used a reduction flame until she had the results you see below:

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