Marble Maze Workshop with Dorian Bouhuys

In this class students will learn to make a color or clear borosilicate marble maze. Dorian will cover the process of preparing borosilicate colored tubing and bending the colored tubing into a marble maze that a mini marble can travel through. Students will make their own marble mazes with the help from Dorian as well a class collaboration.

The class will focus on stretching down colored tubing while maintaining consistent diameters, desired flame environments for stretching and bending tubing, Dorians technique for bending 9mm – 19mm clear and color tubing, solid welds, hollow welds, Jesus seals, opal encasement, maze planning, and bridging multi sectional hollow assembly.

The minimum enrollment for this workshop is 3 students. This class is for intermediate or advanced lampworkers.