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Kaleidoscopes by Janet & Frank Higgins
  Welcome to this display of our Kaleidoscope work, which developed out of our 20-year involvement in Stained Glass. We hope you will share our enthusiasm for the magical images which are conjured up by these deceptively simple instruments. We are based in Odiham, Hampshire in UK and as far as we know, we have the only studio dedicated to Kaleidoscope-making in the country. We are certainly the only UK-based Kaleidoscope artists to be featured in the prestigious US-published Kaleidoscope Collectors' Guide. In these albums, you will find illustrations of the principal types of kaleidoscope we make, plus examples of the images they produce. We will try to respond to any comments or questions you care to leave on this page. Alternatively, our contact details are: Kaleidoscope Studio GB, Odiham, Hampshire, UK. telephone/fax 01256 395019 (+44 1256 395019 from outside UK), email frank_higgins1@hotmail.com. These details are also in first album "Kaleidoscopes by Janet & Frank Higgins". We have a small network of galleries across Southern England, where our work is on display. To find the gallery nearest to you, please contact us. In addition to this site, there are pictures of our development work in a series of albums at
My Flickr photo albums
These have been created as a record of our evolving work, much of which has been recorded in "Kaleidoscope Builders' Knowledge Base"
Yahoo KBKB
(KBKB is a good forum for those interested in Kaleidoscopes and K'scope making, with a wealth of archived information. Another interesting forum is
Yahoo Kaleidoscope Collector
To view any of the albums in this collection, simply click on the pictures.
 
Kaleidoscopes by Frank & Janet Higgins
12 pics - An indication of the range of Kaleidoscopes we make and examples of the images they produce
"The 3rd Dimension"
41 pics - Kaleidoscopes producing images with a 3-dimensional appearance
 
Cathedralscope
26 pics - Our personal favourite type of Kaleidoscope, producing rich, complex images.
Wheelscope
22 pics - Wheelscopes, accessories and images. This is the most versatile of all the 'scopes we produce.
 
Oil cell Kaleidoscopes
24 pics - Kaleidoscopes in which the images change slowly as the objects drift through liquid.
"Chorus line"
5 pics - A rarely-seen type of kaleidoscope image
 
Tumblescope
10 pics - Includes examples of the complex images produced by this simple Kaleidoscope
Max Mandala
14 pics -
 
"Starburst" Wandscopes
14 pics -
Miniature 'scopes
14 pics - Scaled-down kaleidoscopes, typically only 3 inches long, but fully functional.
 
The "Classic" range
22 pics - Lighter in weight but maintaining high optical quality
"Simplus" Brass Kaleidoscopes
14 pics -
 
Polarising kaleidoscopes
11 pics - An unusual image-producing system using polarised light. Images appear in mostly pastel colours against a black background. Strong light needed for viewing as the polarising filters absorb 50%-plus of the incoming light
Other 'scopes
13 pics - We make other types of kaleidoscope and experiment regularly with new forms.
 
Colours
24 pics - Some of the glasses used for the externals of my limited-edition 'scopes
Why front-surface mirror?
2 pics -
 
UKKS - 34Pics