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Dichroic Glass Jewelry

Ripple       Glass with a ripple texture rolled into it while still molten. Various widths exist from fine (spaghetti ripple) to wide.

Roundel       Glass that is rotated as it is blown, thereby creating a disk shape with a thicker center and a cut-off from the punti (iron glass-working rod).

Safety       Glass with reduced hazard of injury when it breaks, and therefore specified by building codes for hazardous areas. The two main types are Tempered and Laminated. (see definitions).

Seedy       Glass that contains small bubbles or ?seeds?.

Slab       Glass poured into a mold to make small slabs of glass. See "Dalle de verre."

Smalti       Molten opalescent glass poured into pizza shape and then hand cut into small uneven squares (tesserae) used for assembling mosaics.

Stained       Colored glass assembled into designs. The color comes from the addition of metallic oxides during the process of melting the glass ingredients. The name comes from the silver nitrate that was used in the Middle Ages to "stain" clear glass yellow or orange when fired.

Tempered       Glass that has been heat treated to make it very hard and brittle. When the surface is broken anywhere, the entire piece of glass shatters into tiny pieces without sharp edges. The rear windows of automobiles are made of tempered glass.

Tessera       A small piece (normally square) of glass or marble used to make mosaics. (plural = tesserae)

Tiffany       Used to describe either:
A type of glass (see Opalescent and Favrile)
A style of glass art (produced in the studio of Louis Comfort Tiffany).

Transparent       Glass through which light passes freely. Glass through which objects on the other side of the glass can be seen.

Triple-glazed       Glass that has been sandwiched between two pieces of clear glass with the edges sealed. This is a common technique for insulating stained or beveled glass in doors.

Vaseline       Glass that is the color of petroleum jelly, emits slight radioactivity, and glows neon green under ultraviolet light.

Vision-obscuring       See Obscure. Opposite of transparent. Antique       Glass made by the "antique" method, namely by an artisan blowing a glass bubble that is formed into a cylinder, that is cooled, cut open, and then flattened in a reheat oven. This glass is characterized by variations in thickness that give the glass a gradient in color across each sheet. It usually also has some small air bubbles and/or variations in the refractive index that produce slight prismatic effects. ANTIQUE GLASS: Is produced when a glass worker individually hand blows and rolls each sheet of glass. This process has been used since the middle ages, and results in brilliant transparent glass, with many striations and imperfections. The newer mechanized procedures results in glass known as semi-antique, new antique, or artique® glass. Assistant - The glassworker that works directly for the Gaffer. In some situations, there may be several assistants depending on the size of the project.

APSLEY PELLATT GLASS: The Falcon Glass House in Blackfriars and a large showroom at St. Paul's Churchyard were part of the Pellatt and Green company. Apsley Pellatt IV joined his father's in business, in London around 1811 at the age of 21. Apsley ran the company when his father died in 1826 and changed the company name to Apsley Pellatt in the early 1830s.
Pellatt and prominent scientists Humphrey Davey and Michael Faraday, took a great interest in glass chemistry resulting in experiments on optical glass in the 1820s. He made decanters, paperweights, scent bottles, jugs, mugs, and various other items in clear high quality crystal glass with cameo incrustations to around 1850.
In 1819 Apsley Pellatt IV patented "crystallo ceramie", the process of encasing a medallion in glass, what is known today as the "Cameo Incrustation" and "Sulphides". He documented this process in 1821 he wrote a book,"Memoir on the Origin, Progress and Improvement of Glass Manufacture including .....Glass Incrustations", later revised the content Titled "Curiosities of Glass-Making".

Dichroic Glass Words 1 | Dichroic Glass Terms 2 | Dichroic Glass Definitions 3 | Dichroic Jewelry Terms 4
Fused Glass Words 5 | Fused Glass Jewelry Definitions 6 | Glass Jewelry Terminology 7
Dichroic Jewelry Explanations 8 | Fused Dichroic Glass Defintions 9