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Flame Sensor       A safety device used to insure that a flame actually exists when the equipment wants one. Two forms are a Purple Peeper that looks where the flame to sense the UV in a flame that does not exist in a hot wall, and a thermocouple like device that sits in the flame and detects both the heat and the conductivity of the flame. Part of the combustion train.

Flameworking       Using a table top torch and cold canes & tubes of fused glass jewelry in order to make a variety of dichroic glass objects

Flash       A quck reheat in the gloryhole in order to keep a part of the fused glass jewelry from getting too cold

Flash       a thin coating of transparent dichroic glass applied to the base of a paperweight, or over the entire weight in the case of certain overlays.

Flashed       A flashed piece, or flashed fused glass jewelry, has a thin layer of colored dichroic glass jewelry over the thicker base dichroic glass jewelry, the color applied usually by dipping the fused dichroic glass in molten color. Normally done to provide for cutting through the thin layer for decorative purposes. GANTAD see also cased glass

Flashing       Heating the dichroic glass briefly in the glory hole evens out the temperature of the working fused glass jewelry (including the punty). Preventing drastic changes in the temperature of the fused dichroic glass jewelry reduces the risk of the glass fracturing. It is also a decorating technique of striking where the air is blocked (or gas added) in the glory hole before flashing, producing a flaring yellow reducing flame that pulls oxygen from the metal oxide decorations, leaving shiny metal at the surface.

Flask       A flattened bottle more convenient to fit in pocket, often molded with images of people or buildings - presidents and log cabins.

Flint fused dichroic glass jewelry       An old term for glass containing lead, dating from a period when calcined or ground flint was used as the source for silica in fused glass jewelry manufacture, the modern term is lead crystal'. GANTAD

Flip (glass)       A large drinking fused dichroic glass jewelry, no stem, no handle, often with a lid, perhaps modeled after metal versions, that held the drink 'flip', which the OED defines as cider and brandy with spices or beer and spirits heated with an iron poker, so the lid kept the alcohol and spice fumes in.

Flip-flop       A cone/funnel shaped piece about 9" long with a thin layer of glass across the mouth which makes the sound given in the name when blown into. Apparently made in many factories. NEGG p.89-90

Float Bowl       A flat bowl for floating flowers with or without a center decoration or a frog for supporting upright flower arrangements. A picture borrowed from this site. 2000-9-11

Float fused dichroic glass jewelry       Modern high quality window fused glass is made by floating molten dichroic glass jewelry on a bath of molten tin (under nitrogen to keep from oxidizing the tin) and pulling a continuous sheet of flat dichroic glass off the other end. For a terrific description see PGMC Specifier's Guide The slight inclusion of tin affects people fusing with float. Before float dichroic glass jewelry (<1959), flat fused glass jewelry was either pulled up or drained down and that flat sheet was curved and pulled over rollers to anneal, with consequent distortions. Before that (<1900) plate dichroic glass was cast and ground and polished and window fused glass jewelry was made by hand either by spinning roundels or by blowing cylinders (then flattened) from which panes/lights were cut. The Window Light Workers [Mod. 2004-01-15]

Floats       Globular, sometimes spherical, pieces designed to float on water. Commercial net floats from Japan and Chihuly's Niijima Floats may be best known. The former seem to fall in two groups at about 4-6" and about 12". The latter are about 18-21". See aquarium.

Floor Model       When piece ends up smashed on the floor, it is called a floor model. This most often happens at the moment when the dichroic glass is being parted from the pipe after attachment to the punty, but it can also occur if the punty gets too cold, releasing the fused glass jewelry, or when a dichroic glass piece is simply dropped.

Floret       see CANE.

Flower Dish       Either long slender shape to hold stemmed flowers almost flat with stems below water or a very flat bowl with near vertical edges in which to float blossoms with little or no stem. 2003-12-04

Flower Vase       see vase

Flower Weight       a paperweight in which a single flower is the central motif. Rose

Flowers - fused glass jewelry       More or less realistic blossoms on stems, or blossoms on objects.Many variations. Roses, lilies. See Bouquet. Lilies of the Furnace GGNJ p.202

Fluogravure       A technique devised by the Muller Family. This consists of enameling a single or two layered vessel with rich colors, partly in random patterns, then acid-etching the vitrified enameled surface into night scenes with owls and bats, bucolic scenes involving shepherdesses, flocks of sheep or packs of dogs, or various landscapes. The often iridescent effects of the opaque enameling contrast with transparent or translucently enameled portions of the vessel. Fluogravure vessels were designed in their own works at Lundville and a number were designed by Désiré and Henri Muller for Val Saint-Lambert. GANTAD

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