Messy Color™ Maple
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A transparent brown resembling maple syrup.
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"Maple doesn’t boil or scum and makes an excellent base for the silver reactive colors. It also blends beautifully with Mink. Those two colors together make a most outstanding reaction." – Sue Stewart Click here for other interesting Maple discoveries.
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Messy Tester's Feedback
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Maple is unique to the 104 lampworking color palette.
"Originally, I was comparing it to Effetre medium or dark amber, but while pulling out all my samples I was rather excited to discover that it is much closer to Czech Smoke Topaz." – Serena Thomas
"Photo shows it with Effetre’s Dark and Medium Topaz, which at first glance, rods of Maple may look like. But as you see it is a brown and the others are more orange/amber color." Read more at Elasia's blog. – Elasia
"Maple is a more true brown; topaz has a more orangeish tone to the brown. I found them to be quite different. My personal preference was the topaz, but it would really depend upon your desired result." – Donna Dorman
"Maple is more to the red side, not so much the yellow side as the topazs. It's a very nice shade." – Renee Wiggins
"Topaz is more amber like [more red in the mix]. Maple is a warm brown but not amber like. Maple is a nice unique addition to our shelf." – Starleen Colon
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How does Maple compare to Italian topaz?
"Maple and the Italian topazes are very comparable. Not much difference except Maple might melt a bit easier, making encasing with it smoother." – Chris Haussler
"Maple seems more saturated to me and a nicer colour, I much prefer it." – Claire Morris
"Topaz is orange. Maple is brown." – Elasia
"I was not expecting to be impressed with this color. It doesn’t look much different than regular Moretti Topaz. I began using it for making raised dots and let me tell you I was really blown away. This glass melts like nothing else. It’s smooth and creamy and pulls into stringers or encases beautifully. If you could make all glass melt like Maple I would be a happy lady!" – Gail Witt
"Just made a bead using Butter Pecan as the base and streaked Maple over it. Have made similar beads before using Italian Dark Ivory and Med or Dk. Topaz. Major difference! Using Italian glass, neither color 'swallowed' the other – both stayed where I put them. When using Maple, I was very surprised to see that the Butter Pecan really swallowed up the Maple, resulting in a very organic look. Nice!" – Kathy Coon
"I like the shade of Maple, as it is more like real brown than golden brown. Maple is stiffer. At first I thought that Maple might be a striker, because it became so dark in a flame when used in a triangle bead, but after it had cooled it became lighter again." – Maija-Leena Autio
"Maple is not as intense as I thought it would be. I use this shade for hair/fur and other sculptural items and I would choose Maple for a lot of the applications over topaz. It’s slightly toned down." – Marcy Lamberson
"Maple is a truer brown which I like. Topaz has more red/orange tint." – Elizabeth Long
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Special thanks to Genea Crivello-Knable, Serena Thomas, & Elasia for providing the photos in this section.
Visit the Fritipedia Wiki CiM Page for more information about Maple.
See Kay Powell’s Maple frit testing samples.
Browse Serena Thomas’ color gallery.
"Maple doesn’t boil or scum and makes an excellent base for the silver reactive colors. It also blends beautifully with Mink. Those two colors together make a most outstanding reaction."
– Sue Stewart
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| “What's particularly lovely about Maple to me is that it does not strike and does not react - it stays that true medium brown. It's not so dark that you can't make spacers with it, but not too light that it won't show up when encased.” Read more at Kandice’s blog. |