Madeline Bunyan

Welcome

Welcome to the website of Glass Beadmakers UK (GBUK).

Here you can find information, links and pictures about the art of lampworked glass beads.
To find out about GBUK and what we do please see the ‘About GBUK‘ page. Our gallery showcases some of the work by our members and is constantly expanding, whilst our links page provides links to our members websites and other websites of interest.
If you would like to join GBUK then please use the form on the Join us page.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact us using the contact form.

Journal
We produce a journal each year: want to buy Journal Issue 5?

GBUK on social media: you can follow us on Twitter, discuss on LinkedIn, and see our Facebook page and Facebook group.

Come and join our Flickr group to show off what you’ve been making! Glass Beadmakers UK on Flickr.

Latest News

Posted on April 26th 2013 » Journal Issue 5 available

The journals went in the post yesterday to everyone who didn’t pick theirs up at the Flame Off and were eligible for this issue. (If you were a member at the end of Sept, you are eligible. If you joined later, you will get Issue 6 next year).

You can buy Issue 5 from us directly, or you will be able to also buy them from Tuffnell Glass alongside your glass orders. Read more…

Posted on April 08th 2013 » Bead & Jewellery Competition 2013 winners!

Thanks very much to all of you, we had a fabulous range of entries! We awarded prizes to the winners and two runners up in each category. The themes were Nursery Rhymes and The Final Frontier. Read more…

Posted on March 17th 2013 » Newsflash: Flame Off call for volunteers; sell your beads; Marshall Hyde at Studio 19

GBUK will have a table at Flame Off and as always we need volunteers to run the stand for the Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We will be grateful if anyone going could spare an hour to help out. Please let us know!

Once again we will also be making a limited amount of space available on the stand for members’ beads for sale. These will be taken on a first come, first served basis but anyone volunteering can have their own space (free of charge) to sell beads for the duration of their time on the stand. We will charge £2.50 per ‘slot’, a slot being a square compartment measuring 3 inches square and 1¼ deep. Members may ‘buy’ up to three of these for the duration of the two days.

Beads can be brought straight to Flame Off but the slot would need booking in advance to guarantee your space. Beads need to be tagged with name and price, plus an inventory. To book, please contact chairman@gbuk.org.

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Marshall Hyde will be teaching at Studio 19 on Saturday 23rd March, as a kind of ‘pre-Flame Off warm-up’!

The class is called ‘Designing and Thinking in Glass: Beyond Technique’ or ‘Discover what you already know: How to make the work you always wanted with skills you didn’t know you had’. Definitely something a bit different!

The cost will be a bargain £60. To book a place, please send a £30 deposit to Di, either by paypal to dianaeast@glass2wear.com or by cheque.

More details can be found on Di’s website: http://www.glass2wear.com/?page_id=561

Posted on February 11th 2013 » GBUK Bead and Jewellery Competition 2013 reminder

You have until the 28th Feb to get your entries made and submitted! 17 days to go. Full instructions once more: Read more…