Messy Color™ Allspice Ltd Run

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Allspice Ltd Run (511723)<br />An opal brown.

An opal brown.


"If you look closely you can make out little wispy veins of a slightly darker brown. A few of the CiM opals get this going on and I think it’s a quirk of the glass rather than me doing something ‘wrong’. When I started playing with this colour I worked it no differently to any other opal and I thought it must be me, or maybe my propane was running low, so I faffed with the flame and the oxygen and propane levels but I still got the wisps. I tried a couple of other CiM opals to make sure I wasn’t losing my mind and no, for once I wasn’t, and the wispiness seems to be what the glass wants to do." Read more at Laura's tumblr. – Laura Sparling

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Join Trudi Doherty's FB group Lampwork Colour Resource Sharing Information for a catalogue of color study.
Claudia Eidenbenz’s "Vetrothek" (glass library) is a great resource for color comparisons.
See Kay Powell’s frit testing samples.
Browse Serena Thomas’ color gallery.
Check out Miriam Steger’s CiM color charts.
Consult Jolene Wolfe's glass testing resource page.

"Within this set I paired Allspice with Double Helix Helios silver glass. It is a great base glass with little to no shockiness when melting. The reduction of the silver glass did produce an interesting fuming on the surface with a blue hue." Read more at Darlene's blog.
– Darlene Collette
"Allspice is a fairly dark amber brown opalino. Used on its own, the spacers are a lovely warm and deep colour. The etched spacers have a nice inner glow." Read more at Heather's blog.
– Heather Kelly
"If you look closely you can make out little wispy veins of a slightly darker brown. A few of the CiM opals get this going on and I think it’s a quirk of the glass rather than me doing something ‘wrong’. When I started playing with this colour I worked it no differently to any other opal and I thought it must be me, or maybe my propane was running low, so I faffed with the flame and the oxygen and propane levels but I still got the wisps. I tried a couple of other CiM opals to make sure I wasn’t losing my mind and no, for once I wasn’t, and the wispiness seems to be what the glass wants to do." Read more at Laura's tumblr.
– Laura Sparling
"Allspice is a cinnamon alabaster. Extended flameworking yields a rich, woody blush in the finish."
– Heather Sellers