Here's something I tried out recently when I was searching for different textures. It's such an obvious thing (and therefore often missed, I guess ... I sure did until now :P ), I'm sure people have used it in Egypt 5000 years ago, but because it's so simple that just about anyone with a little experience can do it, I thought I'd share it anyway.
The textures in the marble (rather quickly made, sorry I didn't even bother melting out the lines made by the marble mold coz they're just experiments) are from a Meat Tenderising Mallet I found at a cheap shop fo $2 (like the one in the first pic). both sides of the hammer are textures, one with a fine texture, the other side with a wider spaced texture ... heat the glass, press, fume, cap the back, hey presto, double sided textured grid marble (I like to call it "gridl"), cheap cheap texturising tenderiser. The jelly is made the same way and then imploded ... I guess you can get a similar effect from a flower frog (and an even better effect from the awesome V
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