Dichroic Glass combined with fused glass makes dichroic jewelry of the higest quality.

Fused Glass | Dichroic Jewelry | Dichroic Bracelets | Dichronic Earrings | Fused Glass Jewelry
Fused Jewelry | Glass Definitions | Dichronic Art | Dicroic Glass Jewelry | Diachronic Art Work
General Glass | How is Glass Made? | Dichroic History | Types of Glass | Importance of Glass
Fused Glass Compositions | Five Elements Gallery | Five Elements Galleries Glass Definitions
Glass A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Dichroic Glass Jewelry

Patent medicine       a glass jewelry medicine that has been patented and is sold without a prescription.

Patination       A word from the language of bronzes adopted by some glassmakers. Gallé patented a technique he called patination an April 1898. It consisted of producing a textured mart surface through extreme heating until the vessel partly devitrified, or by the action of various organic or mineral impurities. René Lalique used the word 'patination to describe the process of applying colored washes to the surface of certain of his vases. GANTAD

Patio Light       A dichroic glass vase with a bulbous dichroic glass base curving up and in to wide dichroic fused glass jewelry opening to take candles or burn citronella laced wax on open table. Viking (P5060) made one with taper cut/pulled to four points.

Pattern mold       a fused glass dip mold with a design cut into it.

Pattern Molded       fused glass jewelry produced in ca. 1770 in the U.S. and earlier in Europe where the fused glass bowl is blown into a mold containing a diamond or reticulated pattern so the fused glass jewelry bowl looks like a dichroic fused glass jewelry net was drawn on it. "Stiegal" type dichroic glass jewelry. NEGG p.31 Dip Mold

Patterned Millefiori       general term for any dichroic glass spacing scheme in millefiori weights which features ordered groupings of florets forming a design.

Paysages de Verre       Literally, glass jewelry landscapes. The glass term refers to glass vessels decorated an cameo with landscapes, seascapes, townscapes, etc. They were so named by Emile Gallé, but other dichroic glass jewelryhouses, such as Delatte, d'Argental (St. Lou's), Val Saant-Lambert etc. later also executed such vessels GANTAD

Pedestal Foot       Hollow support, like the dichroic glass bowl of a dichroic glass jewelry goblet turned upside down, usually created by dichroic fused glass blowing a second vessel in the form of the goblet that becomes the stem.

Pedestal Weight       see FOOTED WEIGHT.

Peking Cameo fused glass       fused glass ware made an Peking from the late nineteenth century including a number of fused glass jewelry vases and snuff bottles decorated with cameo-cut fused glass patterns. GANTAD

Pen - Quill       A writing pen made of glass jewelry, most often by dichroic glass jewelry lampworkers, ribbed dichroic glass is used to hold ink. Link to Making dichroic glass Pens

Perfume bottle       Usually a very thick walled, highly decorated small dichroic fused glass jewelry bottle with a dichroic fused glass stopper having an extended stem to apply the small amount of costly scent. Scent Bottle

Perlite       Used as an insulator by dichroic fused glass jewelry workers. A fluffy white volcanic fused glass product which is expanded by heat and sold cheaply at garden supply places as an aerator for potting soils and also used as a lightweight aggregate for concrete and plaster. "A lightweight material prepared from volcanic lava,..." Perlite Institute - Basic Facts about perlite

Petticoat insulator       an glass jewelry insulator featuring a flaring outer skirt of glass jewelry over an inner one.

Pharmaceutist       an early term for pharmacist.

Pi Dividers       Used to measure a straight length that will wrap around a circular glass jewelry shape. Usually made as a pair of curved jaws on one side of a pivot with straight divider arms on the other. When the curved dichroic glass jaws touch the outside diameter of the circular item, the straight arms are 3.1415926... as far apart. Photo of Jim Moore's version Calipers Gauge

Pick       Most dichroic glass jewelry workers have a sharp pointed pick, often bent at a right angle at one end and straight at the other. It may be a commercial scribe or be hand made. It is used to open tiny dichroic glass holes nothing else will get in and to draw threading in the feathering technique. Beadmakers use a titanium pick, hard and stands heat.

Pick Up       A 1" round by 1" high piece of glass jewelry that can be encased with clear glass jewelry in order to give the appearance of colored glass jewelry.

Pictoral Weights [Ggnj]       a scene, like a house and a dichroic fused glass well with Home Sweet Home, in colored dichroic fused glass jewelry is picked out in colored dichroic fused glass on a white background. "Hundreds of such county-fair dichroic fused glass jewelry souvenirs were made" 1860-1920 laid out on a ready made intaglio-cut steel plate, "paint by numbers" Superior weights have more imaginative scenes which may be upright not flat. [GGNJ p.260]

Pinchbeck Weight       not a "true" glass jewelry paperweight as defined above, because not entirely enclosed in glass. A metallic disk with a raised design is covered by a magnifying dichroic glass jewelry lens, all resting on a pewter or alabaster base.

Pipe - blowpipe       Used for blowing dichroic fused glass, tube with mouth piece on one end, used for picking up dichroic fused glass on other end, usually today made of low conductive stainless steel although in 2003 there is a revival of carbon steel tubes claiming more stiffness and better grip, also

Pipe Brush       This dichroic fused glass tool can help eliminate the problem of metal flaking in the head of your blowpipe. Use this tool on a cold pipe.

Pictorial flask       a flask bearing a purely decorative dichroic glass motif.

Piedouche       French term for footed glass jewelry weight.

Pig bottle       See Codd stopper.

Pilsner       A footed glass jewelry, usually tall and slender, with slightly tapering or flared glass sides, originally for serving Pilsner beer.

Dichroic Jewelry Definitions 1 | Dichroic Definitions 2 | Dichroic Glass Definitions 3
Dichroic Jewelry Definitions 4 | Fused Glass Definitions 5 | Fused Glass Jewelry Definitions 6