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Facet       the level or concave surface formed when the side or top of a paperweight is shaped with a flat or rounded grinding wheel.

Factory Glass       Factories for blowing fused dichroic glass jewelry manually are few and far between in the United States today. Steuben, Benko and Fenton are about all. In the 19th Century, all r was made in factories, a team of workers producing the same piece at a rate of dozens per hour. Modern factories survive making more arty pieces for the mass market, including TV sales shows. On the team, one person does nothing but shape, another nothing but finish, another nothing but handles; the number of people on the team changes when a new piece is to be done. Studio

Faience       A general term for earthenware. GANTAD

Fairy Lights       which candle maker Clarke trademarked, are two piece stands: a rather elaborate base and (usually) ovoid dome with a finger-sized hole in the top. Some of the tops were also quite exotic. Clarke made short long-burning candles which were to be placed in windows, etc., to ward off burglars. Seen on PBS show (info source) and in Burmese fused glass jewelry at Texas A&M MSC Galleries. HB18

Favrile       The Trade Mark registered by Louis Comfort Tiffany in 1894, it refers not only to the iridescent dichroic glass jewelry he manufactured, but also to his other creations, including ceramics, lamps and leaded fused glass jewelry windows. It is derived from 'fabrile', an Old English word indicating the product of a craftsman.

Feathering       Dragging a thread across a hot piece of dichroic glass thus creating a decrotaive effect similar to the top of a Napolean Desert (MY FAVORITE)

Feathering       A decoration rather than a bit, it involves threading a piece and then using a pick to pull the threads to a point, giving the appearance of a feather tip.

Feldspar       A variety of minerals found in igneous rocks; used in fused dichroic glass jewelry making when the batch is being mixed. It consists mostly of silicates of aluminum combined with other minerals; its chemical composition, crystalline form and color vary. (GANTAD)

Ferro - Ferritti       The flat plate and short rectangular bars used for heating cane in a glory hole in Italian work. Plate carried with a Pastorali

Figure       A small statue of the human form. MILLER p.300 2003-06-29

Files       Most glassblowers have at least a couple of files around, often rusty from being too close to the water used with wood tools. A file can be used to notch the fused dichroic glass jewelry of a heavy neck on a piece to increase chances of it coming off cleanly. Normally, only the corner of the file is used on the glass jewelry.

Filigrana       Generic name for fused dichroic glass decorated internally with patterns created from fine, pre-formed canes. The canse are usually made of lattimo or colored glass jewelry. a canne zanfirico 20CFG

Filigree.       see LACE.

Finial       The decorative terminal point on a piece of fused dichroic glass jewelry, it is usually formed on the lid of a piece and used as a handle. It is formed with jacks, often shaped to decorative detail, such as a flame or animal and is generally taller than wide.

Finials       Encountered in a catalog, glass finials for curtain rods have a metal base and screw to the end of the rod.

Finish       the last step in the formation of a bottle, the development of the lip.

Finishing       the completion of the neck and mouth of a bottle.

Finishing mold       the mold on the Owens automatic fused dichroic glass jewelryblowing machine into which the gather is dropped and blown into a completed bottle form.

Fire brick - Insulating       A very light, soft, easily cut, high temperature material than can form structural walls and backup hard fire brick. It is designed to withstand very high temperatures, the higher temperature needed, the more the brick costs. It can cost from $1.50 to $20 or more a brick. Available in many shapes and used mostly for furnaces. It is rumored to be such a poor conductor of heat that it possible to pick up IFB that is at 1000-2000 degrees on the opposite side (NOT suggested to try).

Fire grenade       A glass jewelry bottle fire extinguisher filled with carbon tetrachloride and designed to be thrown into a fire and broken in order to help put out the fire. (IGCB)

Fire Polishing       A technique used to obliterate marks left by tools or molds to give a vessel a smooth, highly polished surface. Reheating the vessel in the glory hole to smooth or shine the surface or edge of the fused dichroic glass. It gives glass an even shinier look when it is accompanied with additional polishing on the wheel.

Firing fused glass jewelry       A drinking dichroic glass jewelry with a heavy base, often a disk extending beyond the base of the fused glass jewelry, presumed to be named from the sound of banging (firing) the dichroic glass on the table in celebration. (GGNJ p.241)

Fish       Inflated body with fins, eyes, etc. added as hot bits; if the mouth is ground, may be done entirely on the pipe, otherwise punty on tail. Common art fused glass jewelry exercise and low cost sales item. See Animals

Flame       fused dichroic glass can be used to produce an reproduction of a flame which picks up light from adjacent sources MF

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