First goods in this technique dated 2000 B.C.E. were found in the region of Mesopotamia. Besides, this technique was widespread at the time of ancient Egypt and Rome and was quite popular till medieval epoch. However, later, with development of blown glass it became obsolete.
In the 70s of XX century, masters, who worked in area of blown and stained glass, began experiments with production of glass with the same thermal expansion coefficient, which would allow to furnace it. In 1974, the industrial production of glass, designed to glass fusing, was set up.
Artist, who works with glass in furnace technique, has a lot of facilities and possibilities, but on the contrary, it needs many efforts and painstaking work. That's why, almost all techniques are results of experiments, attempts and mistakes.
Generally, process is that plates of coloured glass are cut in small pieces of proper form and size. Then, they are laid out to compose a design and are melted.
When I make my glass jewellery, in the first place I perfectly think over the design and each stage of production. In case of necessity, I manufacture heat resistant forms. I choose colour of glass. Elements, resulted from melting, I additionally process with diamond tooling, then burn out again, later decorate with liquid gold, platinum, lusters, metallics and treat again by heat. This procedure is being repeated three, four times. It is very important to keep temperature conditions on each stage. I mount finished parts, tighten it together with waxed fibre, skin or metal elements.
Nevertheless, the most pleasant moment is when I finally see shining eyes of enthusiastic women, trying on my creations. This gives me wonderful emotions, I feel that I am the happiest person in the world, because I give happiness to others. I think it is worth to create.