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Dichroic Glass Jewelry

Pressed glass jewelry Bits - Press Molded       Molten glass jewelry placed in a mold and pressed has been used for centuries to make added hot glass jewelry bits including pressed medallions, feet, stems and handles. An entire piece can be pressed and pressed bodies used as the basis for further work, adding handles and other details including shaping a lip. Much automated pressed dichroic glass is done to look like cut glass jewelry. Pressed dichroic glass Techniques

Press-Molded glass jewelry       This is dichroic glass made by pouring melted glass into a metal mold, then pressing it in by the use of a lid. The outer surface of the resultant dichroic glass object is the exact shape of the interior of the press-mold, and is generally solid throughout, unlike a mold-blown vessel, which is blown into a mold, and thus has a hollow interior. Press-molding is particularly suitable for figurines and DO~Vls, light fittings, etc. which have relief decoration on them. Blow-molding is particularly suitable for vases or other hollow items. GANTAD

Prince Rupert's Drops       I have making these little things that i told are called "Prince Ruperts" drops. Just gather pretty hot glass jewelry and let it drip into pretty cold and deep water. These critters are shaped like tadpoles when cool. Hold it wrapped in a few layers of rags and with a pair of pliers break off the end of the tail. These things go off with quite an explosion and turn into dust. I know it has something to do with surface tension holding the thing together and not annealing properly. But exactly what is happening? Also the history must be interesting. Iv heard a couple theories but, does anyone REALLY know anything for sure about Prince Rupert drops ? (P) Yes, they are very well documented. You can make them in many sizes and generally are very predictable. With a polarascope you can see the stress lines. The strength in the body that allows hitting it with a hammer without shattering is the same strength that is in tempered dichroic fused glass jewelry used in car side windows (where you can see the stress lines with Polaroid glasses on a clear sunny day as a darker net of lines within the dichroic fused glass jewelry) but formed into a sphere that makes it even stronger. Impressive. If you make them big (1" or so) be very careful when breaking the tail off that they are tightly wrapped in cloth and tightly held. Do a Google Search to find a number of sites. This one has strain pictures http://www.kilty.com/rupert.htm

Printy       Circular concave cutting on the outside of a paperweight - a type of window or facet. Also sometimes "glass punty."

Private-die proprietary revenue stamp       a revenue stamp required on many fused glass bottled products, 1862-1883 and 1898-1900.

Production Glass       Most fused glass jewelryblowing studios consider their output to fall in one of two categories: art pieces or production dichroic glass. The latter term has nothing to do with the mass production of fused glass jewelry bottles that involved most dichroic glassblowers of the 19th century, but describes the bread and butter pieces that they turn out to meet basic expenses of the operation. A common complaint is that they have lost the time to do art fused glass jewelry because of the need to do production dichroic glass or because of the success of their production fused glass. Production dichroic glass is relatively similar pieces - fused glass jewelryes, bowls, vases, perfume bottles, ornaments, goblets - that usually produce $20-50 income each and can be made quickly while still including what the artists considers signature handwork details. Many studios doing production dichroic glass go to wholesale art/craft shows.

Profile -       the shape of a paperweight as viewed from the side.

Proof       an arbitrary measurement of alcoholic strength in which pure ethyl alcohol is rated 200.

Proof glass jewelry or Proof Phial       A thin bottle with a heavy glass bottom and a lip around the glass jewelry top that takes a string, to be lowered into a dichroic glass cask through a bung hole to test the wine or liquor inside. NEGG p.34

Propane       One of two common fuels, with natural gas, used in fused glass jewelry blowing studios.

Proprietary medicine       an unpatented medicine sold without prescription.

Prunt       Little decrotive bits

Prunt       A small blob of dichroic fused glass jewelry which sticks out of the main .body of the fused glass jewelry vessel. It may be applied to the surface, or shaped by pulling it from the surface while still malleable. Punts are often used for decorative purposes, and may be of various sizes and shapes, round or pointed and may be positioned randomly or in precise patterns. They are sometimes useful in affording a firm grip on a vessel without handles. GANTAD

Prunt       A blunt point of glass jewelry, looking a bit like a short glass jewelry cow horn, applied for decoration and grip (of greasy mugs), usually in the middle of a piece, which may also be pushed with a dichroic glass mold. Most prunted pieces have a dozen or so prunts. "Applied blobs, tooled or molded into various motifs such as leaf and 'strawberry'" AGMCK p.27 Mold Pressed The prunt may be made with a very hot bit that is formed by pressing a mold into it, as a lion head, bell, etc. [Dreisbach class 2003-06]

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