Messy Color™ Ghee
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A yellow opal that varies widely in results when worked, sometimes soft yellow, sometimes amber.
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"Ghee makes a really nice base glass. It seems to really like silver reactive colors too." – Sue Stewart Click here for other interesting Ghee discoveries.
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Messy Tester's Feedback
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Testers report that Ghee turns more caramel colored the more you work it.
"Ghee is amazingly beautiful! It looks like Amber. It strikes very rich tones of brown almost kind of caramely. This is also a switch from a HH. On a HH, Ghee is just yellow, no rich browns or caramels at all. I think the shift from yellow to amber colored is due to the heat of a Minor." – Genea Crivello-Knable
"Ghee is best worked in a neutral to oxidizing flame. I worked both hot and cool and felt that the only real trouble came from working in too much of a reduction flame rather than the heat. Ghee looks like toasted melted butter or light caramel under a reduction atmosphere." – Bonnie Polinski
"It goes when hot, it turns white, and then strikes back to yellow. It can be struck more or less - so if you do nothing to strike it - it will go a light colour, like the rod, and if you work it longer, it will develop more colour." Read more at DragonJools blog. – Dwyn Tomlinson
"And my other favorite color is......Ghee! I absolutely love all the different colors I can get from this glass. I was able to produce colors from dark brown to an almost mauve." – Jan Whitesel-Keeton
"It became more opaque and darker the more I worked it. The faster I finished with a bead and the less heat used, the more translucent and lighter yellow it was, compared to a darker, almost mustard yellow if I had to use a lot of heat and/or work it longer in a design." – Lori Bergmann
"Not a WYSIWYG color. It goes through lots of stages in colors but does stay in the vanilla yellow/cake batter yellow ranges unless worked for a longer time in the flame…then it can go brown. It seemed the less time worked and manipulated the softer and more opaly yellow it stayed. My best advice to keeping the yellow opal look is to work less time and in cooler flame. Encasing it also helps keep the color soft and opaly yellow." – Sue Stewart
"The longer you work this glass, the more opaque it becomes. If worked for a short time you can retain the opalescent color. The color gets darker when reduced." – Teri Wathan
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Testers report that Ghee is difficult to work with.
"I would call this glass difficult for the problems I had with carbon trap as well as the experience needed to get consistent or desired results. I think it requires patience and careful striking to get either the translucent golden buttered caramel color as opposed to the opal yellow or opaque butter color." – Bonnie Polinski
"I did not really like Ghee as the tendency to turn caramel was too different from the original color and was not a consistent color, making it difficult to develop consistent color combinations with other glasses. Also, the Ghee's color changes continue during annealing." – Carol Oliver
"It is tricky to keep the color I want in a design. I wish it could stay a consistent, light buttery color!" – Lori Bergmann
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Testers report that Ghee changes depending on your annealing process.
"Annealed high, Ghee yields a deep earthy yellow rust tone. Capable of yielding warm yellow if worked towards the end of your session and annealed lower at 950-980 non encased. When encased, you must anneal at higher temps and the tone will go warmer, but little rust will appear. You need to work with this color to control the outcome of shade desired." – Starleen Colon
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Special thanks to Genea Crivello-Knable, Bonnie Polinski, Vonna Maslanka, Lorraine Chandler, & Maija-Leena Autio for providing the photos in this section.
Visit the Fritipedia Wiki CiM Page for more information about Ghee.
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Browse Serena Thomas’ color gallery.
Check out Miriam Steger’s CiM color charts.
"Ghee makes a really nice base glass. It seems to really like silver reactive colors too."
– Sue Stewart
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| "I decided to try it with raku frit and I got some fantastic results. It is more of an organic shade of yellow, and it seems to become more caramelized looking the longer you work it." Read more at Two Glassy Ladies' blog. |
"I found that Ghee became more translucent and more caramel colored the longer it was worked, but did neither when encased. In an encased bead, the Ghee turned brown at the ends where it was exposed to air while the glass under the encasement stayed an opaque pale yellow."
– Carol Oliver
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