About Us
Copper Dancer Designs is the merger of two independent studios, Art of the Firebird, started in 2006 by Julia Benson-Slaughter, and Four Tails Lampwork, started in 2007 by Andrea Winkler.
About Andrea
I have been lampworking since summer 2006. At that time I was involved in bookbinding, and had begun creating scroll books with wooden frames and beaded handles. My sister, who had been lampworking for over a year at that point, became annoyed by my pestering her for beads of the dimensions I needed. Finally, she plopped me in front of a HotHead torch and taught me to make my own beads. A few spacers is all she thought I would need t