12/15/2023 0 Comments Stained glass kaleidoscope for sale![]() Perhaps that's what we love most about Charles Karadimos kaleidoscopes they're like a Christmas present wrapped so beautifully that you think what's inside couldn't possibly compare, then it does! ![]() And once it has been born, the fun truly begins! For we get to appreciate whichever handmade kaleidoscope catches and keeps our eye, being perfect just sitting there, yet somehow even more perfect inside. He seems to believe that each component has a destiny, and offers his craftsmanship as an outlet through which each stained glass kaleidoscope can realize its purpose and come to life. ![]() Thinking beyond obvious lines and color combinations, his art has a freedom to flourish. His beautiful stained glass kaleidoscopes are hand-crafted from his studio in Damascus, Maryland.Ĭharles Karadimos brings a fearless hand to each handmade kaleidoscope he creates. He's been working with stained glass since 1975 and began making glass kaleidoscopes in 1980. Karadimos is actually a self-taught artist. Finally, there is the almost universal delight and “Wow” reaction from people encountering our work for the first time.Charles Karadimos is one of the remarkable kaleidoscope artists that are carried by. Then there is the blending of art and science involved in design, coupled with the opportunity to deploy a range of glass working skills – fusing, flameworking, glassblowing, stained-glass construction and precision mirror work. It starts with the almost magical-seeming way that any kaleidoscope will create a harmonious, beautiful image from a random arrangement of elements. What we love about creating Kaleidoscopes We keep in touch with the kaleidoscope community through membership of the USA-based Brewster Kaleidoscope Society and through an online discussion group of well over 700 Kaleidoscope builders, collectors and general aficionados - "Kaleidoscope Makers" - of which Frank is Group Owner and Moderator. Our work, in the collections of enthusiasts around the world, has won awards, most recently at an exhibition in USA to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the invention of the Kaleidoscope. Twenty years on, we are still the only makers of “serious” kaleidoscopes in the country. We have so far made between of them. People showed a lot of interest in this new work and within a few years, we had wound down our conventional stained glass work to concentrate on design and creation of kaleidoscopes. When it came to designing the image-making elements, Janet's background as a colour scientist in the textile industry proved invaluable. Frank’s ancient degrees in Physics and Maths helped. At that point we could find no one in the UK making kaleidoscopes, so we had to work out the complex optical aspects for ourselves. We brought a few kaleidoscopes home as presents these were turned wood or metal-tube-bodied, but we wondered if we could turn our glass working skills in that direction. This was while visiting USA where there had been a renaissance of interest in the subject and there were many good craftspeople making interesting instruments, several hundred serious collectors and several retailers specialising in kaleidoscopes. It was more than 10 years later that we discovered Contemporary Kaleidoscopes. We had run a small stained glass studio, making windows, lamps and decorative items, since the mid-1980’s by coincidence, we had christened the studio “Kaleidoscope Stained Glass”. We started creating kaleidoscopes in the late 1990’s. His creations enjoyed great popularity as one of a class of “Philosophical Instruments” through the nineteenth, but persisted only as childrens’ toys through most of the twentieth century We are reintroducing UK to a craft not seen since the early nineteenth century when Sir David Brewster invented the Kaleidoscope. ![]() As our output is not large, they will remain rarities. ![]() We aim to create high quality instruments, which will produce spectacular images while at the same time being pleasing externally. ![]()
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