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Glossary of glass art terms

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technique. This involves the merging of two cane bubbles (one inside the other) in which the straight canes were twisted in opposite directions. Once merged, the opposingly twisted canes cross each other creating a net like pattern. If done the traditional way, small air bubbles will be trapped
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A marver is a large flat table. The glass piece is rolled across is surface. It is used to not only shape the glass, but to remove heat as well. The rapid absorption of heat by the marver creates a stronger skin (surface tension) than the use of a wooden tool. Marver is derived from the word
269:, the technique of forming glass, from rods and tubes, using a bench top or handheld heat source, formerly lamps, more often today a bench-mounted oxy/propane torch, to shape and form the glass by glassblowing and with the use of tongs, forceps, knives and other small tools. 403:– an Italian term (a thousand flowers) describing a style of murrine defined by internal patterns made by layering a number of colors and shaping each with an optic mold while molten. This style of murrine results in designs that are often flower-like. 514:
technique involving intricate patterns of colored glass canes arranged and twisted to comprise a pattern within a new single glass cane. These new patterned canes are then used to create a glass work. A synonym for zanfirico is
395:"marble." Marble was originally used in the construction of this specialized table. Modern marvers are made of steel, typically stainless steel. Lampworkers use small graphite marvers mounted on or near their torches. 175:
or beer. Ale glasses, first made in the 17th century, have a tall and conical cup, a stem, and a foot. They may be enameled, engraved, or gilded with representations of hops or barley.
181:– the process of reheating a blown glass object at the glory hole during manufacture, to permit further inflation, manipulation with tools, or fire polishing. 41: 419:– a paste of ground or crushed glass, and the technique of casting this material into a mold; also applied to a more general range of cast-glass objects. 195:– a glassworker’s tool in the form of a square wooden paddle with a handle. Battledores are used to smooth the bottoms of vessels and other objects. 88: 413:– Italian term for patterns or images made in a glass cane (long rods of glass) that are revealed when cut or chopped in cross-sections. 60: 189:– The process of slowly cooling a blown or cast object to prevent the stresses of rapid cooling from cracking or damaging the object. 642: 617: 585: 107: 67: 439:, a solid metal rod, around 5 feet long, used to hold an object being blown or hot-worked after it is removed from the blowpipe. 725: 74: 45: 132: 207:– a hollow steel rod, with a mouth piece on one end which the artist blows through to expand a bubble through the hot glass 165:– the technique of grinding shallow decoration with a wheel or some other device. The decorated areas are left unpolished. 56: 500:– pulling molten glass strings from a wall mounted kilnβ€”called a vitrigraph kilnβ€” usually into shapes such as spirals. 492:– use of a 3⁄8-inch-thick (9.5 mm) float glass matrix instead of the traditional matrices of metal, wood or stone. 34: 279:– creating feather-like patterns on a glass by dragging a metal tool across the surface of a newly applied wrap. 223:– Any of several methods of forming glass in a mold, including the pouring of molten glass into a sand mold ( 480: 297:– the grafting or joining together, while still hot, of two separately blown glass to produce a single . 81: 384:
around. When cooled and removed, the space occupied by the mandrel creates the hole through the bead.
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formed out of different coloured glass twisted together - also known as zanfirico cane
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technique. Latticino refers to any glass piece created using colored glass canes.
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is the most common form of glass to be manipulated using this technique.
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is a complicated design where the glass artist uses a
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