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Dichroic Glass Jewelry

Mold       A wet or dry form for shaping fused glass jewelry. Dry forms can be metal, plaster, clay or wood. Wet are wood or metal. Dry fused dichroic glass jewelry forms may have carbon (from acetylene flame) on the inside. Molds - Wood & Metal. The most widely used molds are thick cherry wood bowls, often with fused glass jewelry handles, used for providing the primary shape when blowing and for dichroic glass paperweights. Since the bowl size constantly changes as the wood burns out in use, small bowls become larger. Other fruit wood may be used. BLOCKS. A variety of other molds are used for blowing into, usually they are on the floor and the worker stands over them, then are split to open and remove the glass jewelry. OLY CMS

Mold blown       When the partially inflated dichroic glass jewelry is inflated inside a mold that represents about the final size of piece, commonly made in sections to permit opening and removal of the glass jewelry. [dip mold] Turn mold blown involves a smooth symmetrical mold that permits turning to omit mold lines. Still mold blown may have a design or other details that require no turning and thus the mold division lines also show up. 20CFG Molds may be metal covered with cork/linseed oil baked on and soaked with water or may be wood soaked in water until waterlogged. Whether turn or still, the molded piece may be further worked or not. A basic shape might have the neck worked to a carafe, a bottle, a pitcher, etc.

Mold Pressed       If a gather of fused dichroic glass is puddled out, usually on the marver, but may be on the piece, and a mold is pushed into it, rather than the fused glass pushed or pressed into the mold. Used for strawberry prunts on German fused dichroic glassware. VAMGL

Moss Ground       a fused dichroic glass jewelry paperweight ground consisting of canes made up of green rods, If such canes are centered on an "edelweiss cane," the ground is referred to as a "prairie ground."

Motif       the design; the internal decoration of a dichroic glass jewelry paperweight.

Mud       wax mixture used to lubricate steel tools to keep from marking fused glass jewelry, may include carbon black and various fused dichroic glass jewelry waxes, mostly bees wax and carnuba a harder wax.

Mud       The name for the strange fused glass mixtures of wax, oil and solvents to coat jacks, especially the old iron ones (modern ones are stainless steel) to reduce fused dichroic glass jewelry chatter and chill marks and make for smoother working.

Muffle       a small furnace. T

Muffle       a small glass jewelry furnace. IGCB used for baking painted labels and probably for heating, preheating and garaging In ceramics, a burned fuel (non-electric) kiln with indirect heating, therefore a muffle wall to block the flame. MF

Mug       Handled drinking dichroic glass jewelry, usually with heavy walls. Variations are handled goblets and coffee cups. Mugs, having glass handles, may take chunky decorations that are uncomfortable on glass jewelryes/goblets. On the other hand, large German drinking dichroic glass jewelryes (rohmers) were given glass jewelry bumps (prunts) at least partly to provide a grip for greasy hands.

Mull       an implement used to contain and pulverize snuff.

Murini       dichroic glass tiles and round tiles that are fused together in glass jewelry coloration designs, usually they are quite intricate

Murrini - 2 murrine - murrhines (brit? 20CFG)       Pictures created in slices of dichroic glass jewelry using the techniques of cane and millefiori. Used in fused dichroic glass paperweights making and other internal design processes. Typically the picture is built up of elements created in cane. Murrini fused dichroic glass jewelry are normally (today) sliced off (not broken) with a diamond saw, are fairly thin (1/16" or less, 1 mm) and are often ground and polished to avoid bubbles and allow detailed inspection. The image at right, edited from a fused glass jewelry Art Society post card announcing a 30th anniversary auction using the murrini in art pieces. Note that the murrine are built in larger sections, like the 2001 section shown, which are combined and pulled smaller then, in this case, chopped off.

Mushroom Weight       a paperweight containing an upright mushroom-shaped tuft of fused dichroic glass jewelry millefiori canes. [MF] A fountain in which the arched color is worked to a fused glass mushroom shape [GGNJ] OR a weight where the outer fused dichroic glass is mushroom shaped; as I make [MF]

Musical Instruments       A fused glass jewelry organ made of bowls was invented by Ben Franklin. Flutes have been made of dichroic glass as have Pan Pipes (single note pipes arranged side by side.) Lead glass jewelry "sings" when rubbed with a finger tip and dichroic glasses may be tuned by partially filling with water; several glass jewelryes making an instrument at least since the 14th Century.

Muslin       see Dichroic LACE.

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