I bought five of these

[Stinky The Clown]

Hand made "Shattered Ceiling" pins

One for my wife, one each for my business partners, and one each for the women who we employ.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/456449332/shattered-glass-ceiling-fused-glass-pin



Full disclosure: I am friends with the artist. She's selling a BUNCH of these! Each is handmade.

[longship]

1. What is it?

[Warren DeMontague]

2. a broken glass ceiling, I'm bettin'

[Stinky The Clown]

3. I'm sorry. That might have helped, huh?

They're "Shattered Ceiling" pins.

[calimary]

4. It's this mindbogglingly gorgeous stuff called dichroic glass.

That's a fused glass piece. Notice the long, dark-toned bar that's sort of rainbow-y at the upper end? That's a piece of dichroic glass. This specific one is black art glass coated with various mixtures of precious metal powders - that, when treated in a special vacuum chamber, and fired in an industrial kiln, wind up as fabulous, nearly psychedelic, iridescent glass. When those compounds are applied to clear glass, it produces art glass that shows certain colors when you have it in your hand or maybe sitting on a plain tabletop, but held up to the light reveal all kinds of other, complementary colors. It's like you see two colors, from the same glass. TRIPPY as All-Get-Out!

A good friend of ours, who works in it a lot as an artist, got me into this. I've taken a few workshops which are amazing fun and what you can make can just blow yer mind!

Here: Enjoy!

http://www.firemountaingems.com/resources/jewelry-making-articles/7a1x

http://cbs-dichroic.com/shopping/shop.aspx?Cat=Crinklized+Dichroic™+Patterns

http://cbs-dichroic.com/shopping/shop.aspx?Cat=Shop+by+Color

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Spot on!

[longship]

6. Thanks for the responses. I get it now.

However, from the one pic it was difficult for my 18 month long election addled brain to focus enough to see the trees in the forest.

Much obliged to all of you.

And yes, that looks like a wonderful thing.