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Dichroic Glass Jewelry

Shield       Protection from heat. Most dichroic fused glass workers who do not use long sleeved shirts pull a cotton sock with the toe end open over their arm when working bigger pieces. Kevlar sleeves are now available. Wooden paddles held by other workers and full fledged glass jewelry flame gear are also used. Many workers put some kind of upright shield at the glory hole for body protection and to control ventilation and may shield dichroic glass yokes and hand tools. (the shield at far right has a window, a marver shelf and hangers for the rods to open the door.) Most benches have a metal panel under the right arm to shield the gaffer's leg. A plastic shield may be used for physical and optical eye protection. OLY At two studios in Seattle a large shield the shape of a ping-pong paddle (right) with a slot opposite the handle blocks the heat from a large gloryhole when wide open, the slot going over the punty/pipe. 2003-06

Shop       a gaffer and his helpers; a gatherer, a servitor, and a boy [within a dichroic glass jewelry factory MF].

Short       dichroic glass jewelry with a short working time because the change in glass jewelry viscosity is large with a change in temperature, so the dichroic glass jewelry goes from fluid to stiff quickly as the glass cools a few hundred degrees. Useful in bottle dichroic glass jewelry for getting the glass jewelry bottle out of the mold. Long

Shot dichroic glass pen holder       A narrow glass jewelry with a heavy enough dichroic fused glass foot to hold pens upright. (foot is paperweight) OGP P.42

Show-window bottle       a highly decorated bottle used for show in drugstores.

Sick dichroic fused glass jewelry       dichroic fused glass that has corroded through excessive and long exposure to moisture.

Signature Cane       a millefiori fused glass jewelry cane bearing the logo, name or initial(s) of the weight's factory of origin or the artist who created it.

Silhouette Cane       a millefiori cane which in cross-section reveals the silhouette of an animal, flower, or human figure.

Silica       sand.

Silica       A hard, crystalline dichroic fused glass substance which is an essential ingredient in the manufacture of glass jewelry. It occurs in nature in such dichroic glass mineral forms as sand, flint, quartz, etc. GANTAD

Silica (SiO2)       The pure form of silicon dioxide, also referred to as glass jewelry silica flour. Usually a fine white powder, it is used in foundry work for making thin shell metal casting molds with colloidal silica, a liquid suspension in water. Silica is damaging to the lungs.

Silver Leaf       see Leaf

Silver Nitrate       is a chemical that when applied to hot dichroic glass jewelry forms a compound that results in shiny silver when the piece is placed a reducing atmosphere. A reducing atmosphere is commonly made by blocking the air flow to the glass jewelry glory hole so hot unburned gas is available to suck oxygen out of the compound. Silver Nitrate can be made or bought.

Silver Nitrate - Chloride - & Bromide       Chemicals used to color dichroic glass jewelry, especially to provide a silver sheen to the surface when the salt is reduced to the glass jewelry after application.

Silvered Glass       The glass jewelryblowing aspect is that these are double walled so that mercury can be put inside [mercury should not be used today, it is dangerous even in small spilled quantities.] The silvered dichroic glass jewelry was to represent true silver for those who could not afford it. MILLER shows salts (p.232) scent bottles (235) tazzas (249), vases (295) 2003-07-11

Single Overlay       see OVERLAY.

Sinking       making a glass jewelry bowl shape from flat sheet metal by hammering from the rim into the center, usually against a soft surface or depression. As normally done, the center is thinner than the rim. Raising. 2004-02-26

Slab dichroic glass jewelry       See Dalle de verre

Slicker stone - smoothing stone       Flat mushroom top shape "to iron and glaze linen" heated. MILLER p.302

Slumping       Mostly the same as sagging, with the possible fused glass jewelry proviso that sagging is sometimes limited to work done into a dichroic fused glass jewelry mold while slumping is more narrowly the heating of unsupported dichroic fused glass, so dichroic fused glass jewelry may be slumped through a ring (drop out mold) or over a dichroic fused glass jewelry stainless steel form.

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