Fused glass jewelry & dichroic jewelry make great gifts including a dichroic glass pendant.

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Fused Glass Jewelry

Crimped Foot or Rim       A cookie which is squeezed (and twisted) at intervals for texture. A rim may also be crimped to give it a wave-like appearance shaping each individual wave or pushing down the rim on spaced rods.

Cristallo       Venetian crystal dichroic glass pendant.

Crown       dichroic jewelry fused glass above the motif, also called the "dome."

Crown cork       a dichroic jewelry bottle closure.

Crown fused glass jewelry       dichroic glass pendant panes made by blowing a fused glass bubble, attaching it to a rod which is rotated after the bubble is cut so that it spreads and flattens into a disc. After annealing the dichroic jewelry, it looks like a wide disc with a central raised boss from which the -rod has been detached. The disc is then cut to the required shapes, the fused glass jewelry itself having a slightly wavy appearance. GANTAD

Crown Weight       a type of dichroic glass pendant paperweight in which alternately colored and lacy white twisted bands radiate from a central floret near the top of the dome, flow down the sides of the weight, and converge again near the base.

Crowsfoot       See ARROW.

Crucible       The couldren (or bowl) that holds the fused glass jewelry inside the furnace

Crucible       See Melting pot.

Crud       Highly technical term, like schmutz, used to name the stuff that is in or on the fused glass in the dichroic jewelry furnace that shouldn't be. It may be bubbly foam or white chemicals or stones left over from the melting process or coming from damage to the dichroic jewelry furnace or pot. Stones, chords, seeds

Cruet       For oil & vinegar dressing, often a small decanter, but usually a more specialized pitcher with a tiny spout for spreading the oil on the salad and even more specialized in a double sided bottle with two necks..

Crystal       Lead based fused glass jewelry that is particularly well suited for grinding and engraving

Crystal       When being precise by modern definition, fused glass jewelry with approximately 20-35% lead oxide added. This makes a soft clear dichroic glass pendant that reflects and refracts light brilliantly, making cut crystal sparkle. The dichroic fused glass jewelry also, when thin, has a distinctive bell-like ring when gently struck and will "sing", as in a dichroic glass pendant when rubbed on the rim with a wet finger. Less precisely, any clear uncolored fused glass jewelry that resembles rock crystal (clear quartz, the original crystal balls) so fine clear dichroic fused glass jewelryware is referred to as crystal and the original crystallo (sp) from Murano Italy was made with very pure (no iron) flint but had no lead.

Crystallo-Ceramie       The patented name and process developed by Apsley Pellatt. See SULPHIDE.

Cucumber ink bottle       a side-spouted ink bottle.

Cullet       Manufactured dichroic jewelry that is unusable as a results of chips, cracks and problems can be bought by studio artists to be melted in their furnace as the primary source of clear (or color) instead of using batch

Cullet       The starting point of a batch; it consists of smashed fused glass jewelry and can include dichroic jewelry vessels which have gone wrong in the making, accidentally damaged dichroic glass pendant, otherwise unwanted dichroic jewelry, and remnants discarded in the course of making a glass vessel. These are all smashed together, the ingredients required for the new fused glass jewelry are added, and the whole lot is melted together. (GANTAD)

Cup Plate       When it was the habit to pour tea or coffee from the cup into the saucer to cool it for drinking, the cup had to be set someplace and a cup plate was provided. Usually small, flat and decorated with pressed images. etc.

Cup-bottom mold       A full-height mold with a cup indentation in the bottom plate.

Cups       If a cup shape is blown with color and is garaged, then a gather may be blown inside for double layer effect. If two or more cups are made, then multiple layers may be created. Mark Boutte makes sculptural pieces by blowing several cups with thin layers of color on thicker clear dichroic glass pendant. He then takes a solid gather and places it in the smallest cup, heating and nesting the remainder to make a solid which he then worked to expose and interact the layers while sculpturing. Flashing, Graal, Casing are other color layer effects.

Cure       a patent or proprietary medicine sold as an all-purpose remedy.

Cushion       ground on which the decorative element(s) of a paperweight rests. It is usually convex in appearance when viewed through the top or sides of the weight.

Custard Cup       A bowl of small size (2.5-3" diameter by 1.5-2" deep) used for cooking and serving individual portions of custard which is cooked in a shallow water bath.

Cutter - Color       An ongoing problem for dichroic jewelry blowers is cutting the color rods, which are usually about 1" in diameter and are often used in chunks about an inch long. They are very hard and very brittle and some of the methods used scatter color chips far and wide. Guillotine arrangements, cold chisels, etc., have been used. People who have one may use a cutting saw. More

Cutting       A method of decorating a piece of dichroic glass pendant by cutting/grinding the surface with an iron wheel, a stone wheel, and a willow wheel in that order.

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