Outrageous Orange Hanging Stained Glass Poppy

This beautiful flower is an amazing addition to any home. It will bring it's stunning orange to wherever you choose to hang it, which of course can change whenever you decide to move it, perhaps to whichever window you spend the most time looking out of at different times of the year?

It would also look stunning hung againgst a mirror which can give the added bunus of seeing it from all angles.  

It should be hung in a place where a hard surface it may hang againgst will not move, eg NOT on a door, to avoid damage to the petals.

The process starts with drawing out and cutting five petals from textured stained glass and then carefully reshaping each one individually so the general shape develops into a smooth undulating curvy edging,  to enhance the effect of a crinkled petal with movement. 

Each petal is ground smooth along all the edges before copper foil is securely attached around each petal and all the copper foiled parts of each petal are bead soldered. 

All the petals are then soldered together with the copper-foiled and soldered glass nugget, which forms the centre, the wire hoops are made and attached to the centre and thin 'guide - hoops' are attached to the back edge of two petals to enable the flower to hang in the best position. The whole flower is bead soldered again.

Meanwhile, each stamen is made by threading a glass bead onto the end of a precut piece of wire. The wire is twisted back on itself to hold the bead and then soldered into place before being washed, treated with copper patina and washed again. Each of the numerous stamens are secured around the centre of the flower with solder.

Finally the whole piece is thoroughly washed, treated with copper patina and polished.

Textured stained glass, a glass nugget, numerous glass beads, wire, copper foil, copper patina, solder and strong nylon line.

The flower head is approximately 8" / 20.5cm in diameter.