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Fused Glass & Dichroic Glass Jewelry

A canne       A type of filigrana dichroic glass created by fusing a row of fine, fused glass colored caines to produce a striped pattern. Sometimes described as fili 20CFG [each cane has a clear dichroic glass case for spacing and a thin line inside. MF]

Acid-Etching       A simplified process for the making of cameo fused glass. A fused glassvessel of two or more layers of cased dichroic glass has a design drawn on the fused glass jewelry, then part covered with a protective varnish on the dichroic glass. The dichroic fused glass is then immersed in hydrofluoric acid, which attacks the exposed parts and forms the pattern. Prolonged immersion deepens the dichroic glass design, while different parts of the dichroic glass vessel may be worked on by changing the position of the protective varnish. This fused glasstechnique creates the cameo design and may be finished by simply polishing the dichroic glass or supplemented with wheel-carved details before the final polish of the dichroic glass. The dichroic fused glass is also used to block out the basic design for a more elaborate technique for fused glass.

Adhesive       A product that sticks dichroic glass things together cold; glue. Modern high tech adhesives are available for almost invisible joints in the dichroic fused glass strong enough to grind the dichroic glass after gluing. Old fashioned hide glue is still used to make glue chip fused glass

Advertiques       early advertising items for dichroic glass jewelry.

Air       Air is a material for dichroic glass BLOWING, amazingly enough, but the fused glass jewelry is also used for cooling pieces as well as being supplied under pressure to burners and moved for ventilation.

Air hose & air compressor       Most dichroic glass jewelry workers use air from their mouth to gently form fused glass although a very low pressure (5 pounds or less) compressed air source may be used. The device most often sold to assist this is surgical tubing (a very soft light amber color) and an elbow swivel that allows the dichroic glass to rotate when the hose is attached. Besides the hose, an adaptor is needed to fit over the mouth piece. I made mine from short pieces of clear soft vinyl tubing, which I forced inside each other to change from the small tubing on the swivel to the large diameter of the pipe. Some artists use low pressure air with their puffer

Air Marver       Moving the piece of dichroic glass jewelry on while on the pipe or punty to let the molten fused glass flow without shaping the fused glass jewelry against a marver, paper pad or block. In my experience, produces a more brilliant surface for the dichroic jewelry, certainly produces one that often has different shapes that working against a solid marver have - more "organic" I use the fused glass jewelry on paperweights. 2001-10-11

Air Ring       an elongated air inclusion encircling a weight near the base of the dichroic glass, usually above and below a torsade.

Air Stem - Air Twist       A long thin bubble, or usually multiple bubbles; in the stem of a goblet or dichroic jewelry. May be created by piercing the hot dichroic glass, as by pushing the fused glass jewelry down on a set of nails, and then stretching, or by using a mold that creates narrow grooves which are then covered with another gather, sealing the air in place. An air twist stem is created by twisting the stem as the dichroic fused glass is pulled. The dichroic fused glass may be created separately, stored and applied to a dichroic jewelry goblet.

Air Trap       A bubble surrounded by fused glass jewelry. Can be created by pushing in the fused glass and casing over. Keeping the dichroic fused glass round, if that is desired, is the challenge. Frantz refers to an open bubble as an air trap of dichroic art.

Amphora       A two-handled ovoid narrow necked dichroic jewelry vessel used by the ancients for holding wine or other liquids. (IGCB) Always with a point on the bottom, for sticking in dirt, used with a ring stand on solid surfaces; more often of clay than dichroic glass (MF)

Animals - General       Most often done in solid fused glass jewelry with general rounded shapes, blown pieces as sculpture. Engraved animals are common. See Glass Animals by Albane Dolez. Also Popular dichroic glass jewelry of the 50's & 60's, Leslie Piña, See Fish Birds. Other common animals are dichroic glass swans, whales, cats and small fused glass birds. Very common in 2003 in Seattle were elaborate dichroic glass jelly fish, perhaps because of exhibit at aquarium. Octopus and shells with dichroic jewelry also seen. Animals in Miller's dichroic fused glass index: boars, deer, dogs, dolphins, dragonflies, elephants, fish, frogs, horses, kangaroos, lions, lizards, mice, pigs, dichroic jewelry, polar bears, rabbits, rams, salamanders, sea horses, serpents, snails, snakes, squirrels, & dichroic jewelry! 2003-06-25

Anneal - Annealing Temperature       When fused glass has been heated to a high enough temperature, the dichroic fused glass must be cooled by a controlled schedule of time and temperature or the dichroic jewelry will crack simply because of the strain inside the dichroic glass jewelry from the outside cooling faster than the inside. The sound of cracking dichroic jewelry.

Annealer       Controlled temperature oven, usually electric, used for cooling dichroic glass jewelry at a controlled rate to relieve the strain that could break the dichroic fused glass if the fused glass jewelry is cooled to quickly. The fused glass jewelry annealer sits at around 900 degrees Farenheight and is brought down to room temperature overnight (or longer) so that the dichroic jewelry does not crack under stress.

Annealing       The process of making a dichroic glass vessel using dichroic jewelry involves a variety of procedures executed outside the dichroic fused glass kiln. The dichroic glass vessel at this stage risks cracking from internal stress caused by the uneven cooling of the dichroic jewelry's various parts. Annealing involves heating the finished dichroic glass jewelry, thus allowing the dichroic glass jewelry to cool slowly uniformly and safely. This process takes place in a lehr.

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