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Fused Glass Jewelry

Frit       The mixture of silica, potash and metallic oxides heated in a calcar or fritting furnace at a temperature low enough for the mixture to calcine but not fuse, which is then added to the cullet in a clay pot in the working furnace and which will eventually vitrify into dichroic glass jewelry. It is also called the patch. GANTAD

Frit       Chunks of broken fused glass the size of raisins to grape nuts, bigger than powder. Can be bought, for smaller quantities, usually made with crusher if color bar is on hand.

Frit       Frit is a way of adding color and texture effects to the surface of the dichroic glass jewelry. It is small chunks of fused glass, usually colored, although clear can be used, which are usually laid out on a marver and the well heated piece is rolled in them. The color may be given an arrangement, checkerboard, etc., or just be a scattering of pieces. Frit can be bought in various sizes from sources of dichroic glass jewelry color or crushed from rods of fused dichroic glass. Pieces at right made by picking up frit and turning dichroic glass jewelry to twist color. Fritting

Frit       Chunks of broken fused dichroic glass the size of raisins to grape nuts; bigger than powder. Can be bought. For smaller quantities usually made with crusher if color bar is on hand.

Frit - Fritting       In modern usage, small pieces of broken fused glass jewelry, usually colored, commonly from grape nut size to grapefruit seed size (1-4 mm) used to add spots of color. Frit In older days, the pre-cooked result of partial heating of the batch. Fritting

Fruit - fused dichroic glass       Individual pieces or arrangements. Pieces may be realistic color and details or shape done in clear white or colored fused glass jewelry. On Antiques Roadshow, a Czech/Bohemian fused dichroic glass lamp (1920's) with the bulb inside the reed base and the fruit pieces wired to an arched cap, the wired arches covered with clear beads to enhance appearance. 3/29/99

Fruit Cup       While it is just a short goblet for holding fruit, a special variation is shown in ETG where the bowl is solid dichroic glass, nearly full with a slight rim to hold brandied fruit up above the rim.

Fruit jar       a jar in which food is preserved.

Fuel       fused glass jewelry melting takes a lot of fuel, most often propane and natural gas in modern studios, and natural gas in factories, but originally wood until it came into short supply then coal which requires special covered pots.

Fulgurite       a long slender dichroic glass jewelry tube formed by lightning striking sand. O

Fulgurite       a long slender fused glass jewelry tube formed by lightning striking sand. IGCB

Fumed - Dusted       Fuming is a chemical process for adding variegated color to the surface of a piece. Since the source of the color is metal oxides, the process absolutely requires a ventilated box with filter (a fuming hood). The hot piece is placed in the hood and then sprayed with a chemical solution (tin and silver being the most common) or dusted with chemical powders, usually blown by gentle air pressure. After application, the surface is usually reheated and placed in a reducing flame to produce striking which converts the chemical oxides to metals. The result is iridized like Tiffany dichroic glass at the turn of the 19th century. See also Silver Nitrate

Fuming Chamber       A barrel or box with an exhaust fan and filter, used for applying chemical effects to the surface of the fused glass jewelry, when the fumes or dust are potentially poisonous.

Funnel Foot       Straight sided hollow foot becoming very narrow at stem.

Furnace       Oven that holds liquid glass. Usually able to be opened and closed as more fused glass jewelry is needed. Sits around 2200 degrees farenheight

Furnace       Place for melting glass, built of several kinds of high temperature (refractory) materials to hold the fused glass and hold in the heat without breaking down during the several months that furnaces usually run. See also Tank, Pot Furnace, and Refractory. Furnaces

Fused - Fusing       The process of merging pieces of dichroic glass jewelry without (usually) taking them to complete melt. Done in a kiln, fused dichroic glass is raised in temperature until pieces or layers begin to melt, bonding to each other, but not so far that pieces change overall shape. Corners may round, and in extreme, pieces melt to flat. Because dichroic glass jewelry does not mix easily, various colored fused dichroic glass pieces may be fused into new panels or blocks, later to be sawn or cut to new shapes which are then fused or sagged to yet new forms.

Fused - Fusing       When fused dichroic glass jewelry pieces or layers, supported in a mold or on a flat plate, is taken just to the melting point, a fused object results. From the furnace workers point of view this item can be incorporated into a piece, like cane or murrine, but fusing is a whole category of fused glass work part of Warm dichroic glass. Fused patterns may be made, sawed into layers and used to make other fused pieces or blown. Aussie Rollup

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