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Fused Glass Jewelry

Dome       see CROWN.

Domed Foot       A foot in the shape of a hollow hemisphere, made separately, usually, like a bowl and attached to the piece.

Domes       Clock Domes and covers for food. The ends of cylinder fused glass jewelry were used as food covers, GGNJ.

Door handle Door Knob       Glass door handles are less common today, in part because of the liability risk of people being cut by broken dichroic fused glass jewelry. Most glass jewelry doorknobs are molded or pressed and were particularly popular about 1900. Doorknobs made like paperweights are interesting (OGP P.42) When I attempted to track down a source for brass fittings to hold the dichroic glass, I found they were somewhere in India, where the door handle units came from. At least one fused glass jewelryworker has made paperweight style knobs by sawing the dichroic glass off the base and gluing the weight to the flat fused glass jewelry surface. Emtek http://www.emtekproducts.com/ is marketing door knob hardware in dichroic fused glass jewelry for modern doors

Doorstop       a very large paperweight. These were manufactured primarily by English bottle-makers and mid-western American dichroic glass houses.

Double Overlay       See OVERLAY.

Dowel - Wood       Wooden dowels can be used alone or in large tweezer-like handles. From woodworker supply catalogs in cherry 1/8" to over an inch. Wood

Draining/Dumping       Like gathering, less a bit than a process. As a piece gets larger, the gathering process may result in getting too much dichroic fused glass jewelry or an uneven amount of dichroic glass. Leaving the pipe in the furnace will result in the worker being cooked and the cooler previous gathers becoming soft and sloppy, so the piece is pulled out and placed over a bucket of water and turned to even the layer of dichroic fused glass jewelry and drain off the excess. This works best when the fused glass jewelry is hotter (and thinner) and the worker wants thinner even layers.

Drill - Drill Bit       A tool for putting round holes in cold dichroic glass, the drill actually being the thing with the motor and the bit the variable sized added piece that does the cutting. Covered in Coldworking including drilling & cutting fused glass jewelry

Drip - Optical Drip       A thick trail of dichroic fused glass looking like a large drop of water running down the side of the body. An effective use of an optical drip is Sybren Valkema's Unica, 1973, (right) where a cobalt blue wrap and trail is overlaid with a clear drip that modifies the image shape of the trail.

Drop Off Table       When working dichroic fused glass jewelry, it is nice to have a partner, assistant, etc., who can glove up, take the piece while on the punty and carry it to the annealer. Some people (me) working alone will take the piece on the punty, having chilled the join, and place it just above the floor of the annealer, rap it off (note it is upside down, instead of sitting on its bottom as it would if a gloved placement were used.) After one has seen a piece pass between the hands of the assistant and crash on the floor, one considers a drop off table. This is nothing more than a rimmed table top, perhaps 18" square, padded with an inch or more of frax blanket or fiberglass. It may roll around and store gloves, knock off tools and other stuff underneith. A metal prop may support the punty if the table is wood, not metal. The dichroic fused glass jewelry is rapped off the punty onto the table and then carried to the annealer by the gloved blower working alone or the gloved assistant. 2003-09-05

Duckbill Shears       Shears with an open edges, used to trim the lip of a blown vessel

Dump       Form of a paperweight, described as having a rough punty area in vintage versions, green glass jewelry with bubbles, vertical oval, 5" tall, mantle ornament, door stop, probably named and roughly made in bottle dichroic glass shops Miller p227

Dunmore       a free-blown squat wine bottle.

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