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A brand-new home for Kiln Schedule Designer
Choose your glass, describe the piece, and build an editable firing schedule from published manufacturer guidance. Review the curve, adjust it for your kiln and project, then take a CSV or PDF to the studio.
New PDF studio recordKeep the firing segments, reference points, curve, and space for studio notes together in a cleaner printable format.
Free to use · No account needed · Works in a browser
App walkthroughs
Follow a real example, step by step, in Palette or Template Studio.
01Start hereBegin with the question in front of you. The guided shelves connect you to trusted references, practical videos, classes, catalogs, and the right studio app.
Guided shelves
Each shelf points to a useful source reference, video, or app. Nothing requires an account; save links locally if you want to come back later.
Start here
Learn how to read ramps, targets, holds, firing phases, and troubleshooting clues before you enter numbers into a controller.
First firings
Get oriented around full fuse, tack fuse, contour fuse, heatwork, and how small schedule choices change the surface.
Build a panel
Start with the essential tools and safety, move a pattern into Template Studio, and build cleaner cutting and edge-prep habits before assembly.
Shape work
Understand how glass moves into and over forms, and how firing choices affect shape, texture, and stability.
Bench skills
Build clean studio habits around scoring, breaking, cleaning, shelf prep, and safe handling before the kiln is involved.
Choose glass
Compare catalog colors, compatibility systems, forms, opacity, and manufacturer source material before building a project color plan.
Studio habits
Use safety sheets, saved learning links, and MGC Studio App to keep useful references and project notes organized.
New apps
Move from inspiration to an order-ready glass plan. Watch the same project travel from Palette into Template Studio.
Start with a photo
Build a color palette from any photo, then compare it with real glass from the Delphi catalog.
Works on mobile, tablet, and desktop.
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Build the project
Upload a pattern, detect the pieces, assign glass, and prepare an order-ready project plan.
Works on tablet and desktop.
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Explore workshops, online classes, and glass events from schools, studios, and educators around the world. Search by technique, provider, or location, then head to the organizer for registration details.
02Read or listenOpen plain-language glass-studio articles, or start the audio version with the round play button below each title.
Process guide
What slumping does, why mold choice and timing matter, and how to read a slump schedule as a careful shape-forming firing.
Read article →Process guide
How fire polishing differs from full fuse, tack fuse, and slumping, and why surface repair still needs schedule discipline and annealing.
Read article →Process guide
How contour fuse bridges texture and smoothing, why total heatwork matters, and how to use it when tack is too sharp but full fuse is too flat.
Read article →
03Today’s learning shelfFind technical notes, firing schedules, safety sheets, project PDFs, and catalogs you can keep open while you cut, assemble, or plan a firing.
Mold Tips
Mold Tips
Basic Firing Schedules
Basic Firing Schedules
Quick Tips
Mold Tips
04Watch and learnFind lessons on cutting, fusing, slumping, kiln work, coldworking, and studio technique from glass manufacturers and educators.
Using heat and gravity, art glass can be shaped over and/or into molds in a kiln to create an almost endless variety of forms. In this lesson you will learn about glass “slumping” methods, with a focus on using commercial ceramic molds.
Lesson 8 of this instructional course demonstrates how to use fusing molds to slump, drape, and cast glass pieces. It provides sample firing schedules for each of these techniques, and also explains how to modify schedules to account for different glass viscosities.
Delphi Glass introduces drape molds and how they shape warm glass forms in the kiln.
05MGC family of appsBuild a palette, map glass to a pattern, keep studio records, and shape a firing plan with the connected MGC family of apps.
Build project color palettes from photos, color values, and real glass catalogs.
Turn a stained-glass pattern into a visual piece, glass, size, and materials plan.
Keep studio notes, recipes, firing references, and project context together as you learn and make.
Plan, visualize, and explain kiln firing schedules for fused glass work.
06Color referenceBrowse Bullseye, Oceanside, and Wissmach glass by color, form, opacity, SKU, and photo. Use Palette to bring real Delphi glass into your project color choices.
000114-0004-F · 000114
Opalescent
000120-0004-F · 000120
Opalescent
000301-0004-F · 000301
Opalescent
F5-2224-F-8
Opalescent
F5-5432-F
Transparent
F5-2702-F
Opalescent
96-41-S · 96-41
Opalescent
96-50-S · 96-50
Transparent
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