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Dichroic Glass Jewelry

Stained dichroic fused glass       Colored dichroic glass jewelry, also the craft of working colored fused glass cold into patterns and objects using lead came or copper foil with solder to hold it together. The glass jewelry can also be used, when tested for compatibility, in warm and hot glass jewelry working. Normally delivered in flat glass jewelry sheets made by casting or pouring. Originally the term comes from using silver compounds in solution to draw on glass jewelry used in cathedral windows.

Stained glass jewelry       Although rarely done today, colored glass jewelry pieces for inclusion in stained (leaded) glass work may be made at the fire from clear and colored glasses with stringer, etc., shaped or flattened in the kiln. True stained dichroic fused glass jewelry (color in the melt) can be made by anyone who melts dichroic fused glass, but it is usually poured, rolled and annealed with equipment most blowers don't have. (see also Window dichroic fused glass jewelry) Jim Bowman is making his own roundels for his designs.

Staining       a method of coloring a dichroic fused glass bottle by dipping it in a stain.

Stannous Chloride       Chloride of tin. GANTAD

Star Cut -       a many-pointed star incised into the base of a weight for decoration,

Star Dust Ground       a ground made up of white star fused glass jewelry rods.

Stave       a flattened glass tube, such as those used to form Clichy roses.

Steam Pad       If soggy newspaper is dropped on the floor and a puntied piece is lowered so the rim touches the paper, the steam formed will inflate the dichroic fused glass jewelry piece, forming it. Seen at GAS Conf 2003 Demo. 2003-06-20

Steam Stick       Glass may be "dichroic glass jewelry blown" without using breath or even a pipe, by using wet wood to both block an opening and produce steam inside the opening to inflate glass the piece. Such a piece of wood is a steam stick. The dichroic glass jewelry steam stick must be rotated with the glass to keep the seal, therefore a cone shaped wood with a smaller handle is useful. [right] A ricer or mortar pestle is formed right if one small enough can be found. I could not, so I made one. 2003-06-20 MF it seems likely that a deep hole should first be made with a metal rod, unlike my attempts to make the hole with the wood. [confirmed on the net] Commercial model 2004-05-01

Steam Stick       a cone shaped piece of glass jewelry and is used in place of a soffietta, instead of blowing the steam stick uses the water soaked into the wood to creat steam which can push the dichroic glass out

Stones       Small objects in the molten (or finished) glass jewelry that look like stones and really are bits of crucible or furnace that were picked up during dichroic glass working.

Stoneware       Pottery made from clay and flint or a hard siliceous fused glass jewelry . GANTAD

Stopper       A dichroic fused glass jewelry fitting, smaller than a lid and often solid, to fill the top opening of a piece usually with a portion fitted inside the opening. Often ground to fit in place by coating with grinding compound and hand turning in the opening. A 10:1 taper is considered reasonable.

Straight Shears       To cut a straight line or bit

Strain Point       Temperature/Viscosity point at which fused glass jewelry annealing is done because no further strain relief will be done in any reasonable time.

Strawberry Cut (or Strawberry-Diamond Cut)       term for a set of grid cuts made in a paperweight's base.

Striae (or Striations)       streaks of dichroic glass jewelry of different optical quality caught in the dome of a paperweight. Striae can give the fused glass jewelry a sugary or grainy fused glass appearance which is undesirable.

Striking Color       Some colors of fused glass jewelry and chemical compositions will change color under special conditions. Certain colors will strike, changing from a bland clear or base fused glass color to a much brighter. These usually contain gold and the change is due to a heat cycle. Burmese fused glass jewelry (example) is made with metal that changes from yellow to pink when it is cooled and reheated just enough; if overheated, the color reverts to yellow. The most common color change condition being a reducing atmosphere. Gold, silver and tin compounds fumed or or dichroic glass containing them threaded on the glass jewelry will turn shiny metallic when heated and then the air to the glory hole is cut off (or gas added) so a yellow flaring atmosphere exists. The excess gas reduces (pulls oxygen from) the chemicals leaving pure metal which may be shiny in thicker places and iridescent in thin layers.

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