If you don’t take a closer look, it’s hard to imagine how Seattle artist Carol Milne makes yarn out of glass!
It is true that hard glass may soften after heating, but the melting point of glass is 1500 degrees Fahrenheit (815 degrees Celsius). How can you wrap glass that has been heated to no longer hot around a needle without melting the needle? What? The answer is...you need to be able to knit yarn, know lost-wax casting, molding, casting kiln, or simply become a disciple of Milne.
The technique Milne invented in 2006 seems a bit complicated and involves many molding techniques. First of all, of course, you need to imagine what the finished product will look like, then make a model out of wax, then inject a model material that can withstand ultra-high temperatures into the model, and then use hot steam to melt the wax to truly complete the finished model. The next step is to put the glass at room temperature into the mold, and heat it to 1400 to 1600 degrees Fahrenheit (about 760 to 870 degrees Celsius) depending on the type of glass. After several weeks of cooling and careful mold opening, the final result is Now everyone can see these sculptures made of knitted glass. Watching Miline carefully open the mold and sweep away the fragments of the model, just like the archaeologists carefully arranging the cultural relics excavated underground, did you suddenly feel that these sculptures made from scratch are actually the same as those made from scratch? Are ancient cultural relics that have been rediscovered just as touching?
