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Glass Art Terms Glossaryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_Glass_Art_terms Become a member of TranslationDirectory.com at just $12 per month (paid per year) Advertisements: Use the search bar to look for terms in all glossaries, dictionaries, articles and other resources simultaneously A glossary of terms used in Glass art * Cane, rods of glass with color, either single or multiple (see also twistie) * Cast, Glass formed by pouring hot glass into a mold (sand casting) or kiln-casting using the cire perdue (lost wax) method. * Frit, crushed glass often melted onto other glass to produce patterns and color * Incalmo, the grafting or joining together, while still hot, of two separately blown glass elements to produce a single object. * Lampwork, alternate name Flamework, the technique of forming glass using a hand held heat source, formerly lamps, more usually today a gas blow torch, to shape glass rods and manipulate them with tongs, forceps, knives and other small tools. * Latticino, Italian decorative glassblowing technique * Lehr, a specialized, temperature-controlled kiln for annealing glass. * Liuli, ancient Chinese glass art * Mandrel, metal rod used to make the hole in a glass bead * Marver, a tool used in glassblowing * Millefiori, an Italian term (a thousand flowers) describing glass decorated with slices of colored canes embedded in clear molten glass, which produces distinctive decorative patterns on glassware, often flower-like designs. * Murrine, Italian term for patterns or images made in a glass cane (long rods of glass) that are revealed when cut in cross-sections * Pate de verre, 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. * Prunt, a small blob of glass fused to a piece of glass, often impressed with a pattern or stamp * Reticello, Italian decorative glassblowing technique * Rod, a rod of glass used as a raw material in forming and fusing glass * Twistie, a cane formed out of different coloured glass twisted together * Zanfirico, Italian decorative glassblowing technique
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