Messy Color™ Mink

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Mink (511788)<br />A chocolate brown opal.

A chocolate brown opal.


"I got a very interesting reaction/effect/whathaveyou the other day. Notice the crackle effect on the horse. Not sure what happened. I may have inadvertently been working in a slight reduction flame - or perhaps there was a contaminant on the glass. Whatever it is - it's a pretty cool effect." Read more at DragonJools blog. – Dwyn Tomlinson

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  • Mink is unique to the 104 glass color palette.
  • Special thanks to Genea Crivello-Knable for providing the photos in this section.

Visit DragonJools blog for a review of Mink.
Visit the Fritipedia Wiki CiM Page for more information about Mink.
See Kay Powell’s Mink frit testing samples.
Browse Serena Thomas’ color gallery.

"I got a very interesting reaction/effect/whathaveyou the other day. Notice the crackle effect on the horse. Not sure what happened. I may have inadvertently been working in a slight reduction flame - or perhaps there was a contaminant on the glass. Whatever it is - it's a pretty cool effect." Read more at DragonJools blog.
– Dwyn Tomlinson
Check out Melanie Graham's blog, especially for the "eye-catching and intriguing" reactions between Messy Mink and silver glass.
– Melanie Graham
"I have never seen any color in soft glass that looks like Mink and that alone makes it an important addition to the available glass color palette." Read more at the Frantz Art Glass blog.
– Patricia Frantz
"When built up into a solid, self-coloured spacer, it's quite dark - to retain the translucency, I would suggest working it over clear or white. . . .The core of the bead is white, and the Mink goes on as a layer on top. The shading from the translucency is quite nice."
– Dwyn Tomlinson
"Mink does stay opal-like after annealing which I do love and reacts great with silver." Read more at Melissa's blog.
– Melissa Villadiego
"Some of CiM's opal colors do go opaque in the kiln, but this isn't one of them. It stays a dark, translucent brownish grey. . .  If this color were opaque, I might like it. But the translucency makes it look slimy and kind of puts me in mind of slugs or snails." Read more at Kandice's blog.
– Kandice Seeber