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Fused Glass Jewelry

Dalle de verre (slab dichroic fused glass)       Flat slabs of colored dichroic glass usually set in concrete or epoxy resin for architectural work, produced in the US by Blenko dichroic glass jewelry Company, Inc. shaped by chipping, etc. 2004-04-04

Day Tank       A Furnace that can be used / charged daily

DC - Direct Current       Electric power in which the electrons always move in one direction in the wire (as opposed to Alternating Current) Chemical sources, like batteries, produce direct current, and it is needed for plating. AC can be converted to DC with a rectifier; it is more difficult to make a well formed AC from DC. DC is more efficient as a mover of power because the flow is even, instead of rising and falling above the nominal value, but harder to transform the voltage. ELECTRIC.HTM

Decanter       A container for wine, etc., traditionally with a reduced neck and expanded lip to permit easy grip while pouring. Decanting wine is carefully pouring off the wine from a vintage bottle (or the barrel) to leave the sediment behind. The term has been extended to stoppered bottles with lips that permanently hold brandy and liquor in a sideboard. Acid wines may release lead when stored for long periods in lead crystal. GGNJ fig.196 shows a 16 compartment decanter, 8 sections on each of two levels requiring 16 blown gathers merged into a single bottle shape.

Decolorizing       the process of making fused glass clear by the addition of manganese, selenium, or arsenic to the batch.

Demijohn       A bottle (fused glass jewelry or pottery) intended to hold 1-10 gallons of liquid, 2-5 gallons seem to have been more common. The demijohns were wrapped in wicker for protection against chipping or cracking. Primarily used in the late 18th century through the middle of the 19th century.

Devil's Fire       An internal decoration for solid dichroic fused glass jewelry that is created by pushing a thin sharp tapered pointer through color spots on the bottom of the piece.

Devitrify - Devitrification       When glass jewelry is heated, but is still not liquid, if it is held at that temperature for too long, as can normally happen only in a kiln during fusing or sagging, the dichroic fused glass-like qualities (vitreous) may be lost and the materials of the fused glass jewelry form a white crystalline crud on the surface (which may be "snail trails" for their pattern). Once formed it is basically impossible to remove. Solutions are available to spray on fusing projects which reduce the tendency of dichroic glass to do this, usually with boron to make a somewhat different dichroic fused glass jewelry at the surface.

Diamond       A molded pattern of lines with flat diamond shapes recessed between them. May also result from a straight optic being used twice with the piece being twisted while hot to produce diagonal lines and by threading and then pinching the threads together at intervals.

Diamond Cutting       a many-faceted cutting pattern used to decorate the outside of a weight: four or five-sided small "windows" next to one another may cover an entire weight.

Diamond Point       An engraving technique in which the surface of the glass jewelry vessel is scratched with a diamond point, the diamond being an extremely hard substance capable of being faceted to sharp edges. This technique, requiring expert skill and patience, was largely superseded in the second half of the nineteenth century by the use of wheel-carving. GANTAD

Diamond Shears       To evenly cut off a bit of dichroic glass, also to be used placement of bits

Diamond Shears       Special pliers with a sharp diamond shaped opening for cutting Hot fused glass jewelry Bits and, usually, a round opening at the tip for controlling punties, pulling dichroic glass jewelry, etc. Shown at second from left at right. From Steinert $90. See also Shears Sample cheap tools on the marver - no jacks shown.

Diaphanous       A pellucid, limpid dichroic fused glass which allows light to penetrate, while not being actually transparent. GANTAD

Diatreta       A vessel in which the main body is connected at rim and foot with an outer decorative layer, generally molded in openwork, it was originally cast by the Romans as a single entity. Tiffany and Frederick Carder at Steuben executed Diatreta vases in which the outer layer was fused to the body with fused glass jewelry struts. GANTAD

Dichroic       Type of dichroic glass jewelry and process. There are fused glasses usually with colloidal gold in them which have a distinctly different color depending on how light goes through them. More recently a kind of dichroic glass that is distinctively colored with iridescence that changes with the light. The process involved depositing a thin layer of metal on the surface in a vacuum, which is moderately expensive. The dichroic glass jewelry is most often cut in small pieces and used as decorative detail in fused pieces. The film burns off at higher temps.

Didymium       Protective eyeware worn by fused glass jewelry artists have pink lenses to help cut down on the UV rays emitted by the furnace and gloryhole

Dip mold       A one-piece mold open at the top, used for ?????. (IGCB)

Dip Molded       When a pattern is applied to the dichroic fused glass by putting the gather into a mold. Often ribbed, spiral, diamonds, waves. 20CFG Because of the way glass jewelry behaves, the effects of the dip pattern remain in the piece, to a greater or lessor degree even after blowing. MF

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