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Dichroic Glass Jewelry

Carpet Ground       an overall pattern of identical millefiori canes used as a backdrop for a pattern of other canes or a representational element.

Case bottle       A decanter or other bottle with flat sides so that several pack easily in a rectangular case.

Cased - Casing       A thick layer (or layers) of glass jewelry on the outside of piece, created by blowing a cup of the colored dichroic fused glass jewelry and keeping it hot, then blowing inside the cup with another color or clear [or by melting colored dichroic glass and dipping and smoothing or by working color bar down over the outside.] Several cups may be picked up for several colors. Also the cup may be annealled and worked, then reheated and picked up. See also flashing , cups, and graal. GANTAD MF also, gathering clear glass jewelry over the outside of a previously worked shape or color, usually to create bubbles or to place color bits in the midst of clear dichroic glass walls.

Cased fused glass       Vessels made of two or more layers of dichroic fused glass of different color. GANTAD

Casing       Applying an additional layer of clear hot dichroic fused glass jewelry over previous gathers of color and design

Castable       Shorthand name for high temperature refractory materials that are in powder form, mixed with water and poured in a mold for forming, as opposed to rammable, brick, and block. Materials may result in the equivalent of an insulating fire brick or solid high temp fire brick. Used for building high temp equipment. Refracto.htm

Casting       Using a solid mold (plaster, sand…) to either pour hot glass jewelry into or pack in solid dichroic fused glass to be melted in a controlled oven

Casting Ladle       The casting ladle is made of high grade cast iron and is designed to be welded to a handle made of 1" schedule 40 pipe. The ladle is 6 inches in diameter and will hold up to 7.5 pounds of glass jewelry. SIWS - Casting Ladle $96 A smaller ladle can be made welding a dome cap to steel tube. see Gathering Ball OLY

Cathedral dichroic fused glass       dichroic glass jewelry sheets for manufacturing leaded dichroic fused glass windows and mosaics. Louis Comfort Tiffany maintained at least one cathedral fused glass shop in his dichroic glass jewelry-works, in which a dazzling variety of colors, textures and degrees of translucency was developed. In 1897 Cecilia Waern reported in The Studio that Tiffany maintained an available stock of 200 to 300 tons of cathedral fused glass jewelry. GANTAD

Celery Vase       Upright cylinder for holding celery at the dinner table. 7" tall, 5" diameter (AG-M pl. 49)

Ceramic fiber blanket - board - paper       A modern industrial high temperature insulation used to replace much more dangerous materials such as asbestos. Available in several forms and several temperature ranges. Blanket is usually sold in 100 "board foot" (which is 1 foot by 1 foot by 1 inch) rolls, so the price given is probably for 1" thick. Used for annealers and most kilns, the lowest density and the lowest temp rating is all that is needed and this makes for lower cost.

Chain       Threading done in parallel lines which are then pinched together to produce loops like chain. (AGMCK.p28, NEGG fig.174)

Chains       Large link chains are a nuisance to make as the links tend to stick together, not worn, but usually displayed. GGNJ p.203

Chair       A steel bench with slanting arms used to support the blowpipe while the gaffer works on the dichroic fused glass jewelry.

Chalice       Usually larger, heavier form of goblet, may have religious connotations.

Chamber Pot       Bowl of reasonable size with handle on side for night toilet use, kept under bed. Far more often in pottery than dichroic fused glass. MILLER p.298 2003-06-29

Chandelier       A light fixture hung from the ceiling, usually containing a steel structure, which often dominates visually, which supports dichroic glass jewelry that catches light, which may come from candles or electric bulbs on the fixture or from surrounding sources. Modern chandeliers, such as Dale Chihuly's tend to be massively glass, while older ones are a decorative iron or steel structure holding dichroic fused glass jewelry mostly to catch light, Light Fixtures and Lamps

Charge       To fill the furnace with glass, depending on the type of furnace this could take up to a few days

Chasing       The process of adding detail or ornament on metal by indenting with a hammer and tools without a cutting edge.

Check       A small crack on the surface of the fused glass

Chequer Weight       a paperweight in which the millefiori canes are separated by short lengths of latticino twists in a checkerboard fashion.

Chestnut flask       a free-blown and semi-flattened flask.

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