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Fused Glass Jewelry

Fluorspar (CaF)       An ingredient used in dichroic glass making when mixing batch. Its common name is calcium fluoride, a transparent, brittle mineral that occurs in many different colors.

Flute       Tall slender tapered footed drinking fused glass jewelry. Also the same shape without a foot for insertion in an epergne 2003-08-10

Fluting       term for a pattern of deep narrow grooves usually cut vertically on the outside of a paperweight.

Flux       a substance (soda) which promotes fusion in dichroic glass.

Fly Trap       A fused glass jewelry globe with a hole in the bottom shaped to lead flies in and block them from getting out. This image from a site on Canadian glass (click on image to visit site.) but also shown in many books on fused glass jewelry objects. ETG

Foil       Very thin sheets of various metals, particularly silver and platinum. Small pieces trapped between two layers of fused glass form an opaque section when seen through either side, preventing light from going through it. Shredded foil suspended between the layers looks like an opaque bubble. Placed underneath a transparent fused dichroic glass jewelry cabochon, it lends it color. Silver foil may be tarnished before trapping between the layers to give it a different color. GANTAD

Folded Foot       The thin rim is folded over or under to provide more strength at the rim.

Folded Rim       The thin flared rim of a bowl is folded in or out to make a doubled thickness, giving more strength with light weight in the object.

Folly       My own term (from Victorian architecture) for something with little or no purpose other than appearance. For example, the objects in the image at the right are sealed and glued to the copper post for placing in a garden; they are entirely decorative, like a gazing ball

fondi d'oro       'gold dichroic glass' Roman technique of gold leaf between two pieces made of fused dichroic glass jewelry which were then fused. GLSMI

Foot       A round disc usually found on the bottom of wine dichroic glasses, but can also be used on all types of vessels

Foot       Added to the bottom of an object to provide flat area of support. Usually shaped so that only the rim rests on the flat. The two most popular foot styles are flared and cookied. see also Crimped, Pedestal, Lilly Pad, Funnel, Domed

Footed       descriptive term for a weight having its own pedestal which is flanged at the bottom.

Footer Footing Tool       Tool for shaping the thin flat foot of a goblet. Most commonly a pair of thin (1/4") fruit wood (cherry) boards about 3" by 4" (75mm x 100mm) hinged on one long edge with a slight semicircular dish sanded/cut into the face of one board along the opposite edge from the hinge with a notch cut for the stem. The wet tool is gripped in the palm of the hand and brought up to the hot fused dichroic glass jewelry foot gather and the boards closed around the dichroic glass. The dish forms the upper side of the foot, the flat board opposite the bottom of the foot. Footer at right, with three different sized cutouts, from Harvey Littleton's book. Also made with handles and with graphite pads, costing about $250 Artco, OLY gls-tech.htm#GOBLETS

Footsitter Shears       A term used in a query to MF, something I have not seen to my best recollection, for a tool doing the same thing as a Footer (above.) Essemce ? [apparently not, makes a footer, but not shears form.]

Fork       A long handed tool for placing and handling fused dichroic glass jewelry in the annealer and garage, typically with the fork rods covered with frax or fiberglass jewelry to reduce thermal shock. Can be welded from rebar. CGS sells 7' forks in 3 styles for $40 each.

Fountain       [MF] the central color is shaped like water rising from a fountain sprinkler head, arching up, out and down. If the center is level, see Mushroom and if segmented, see Umbrella

Frax (FiberFrax)       Spun Ceramic instulaion that is used in and around a fused glass studio, it is a white fluffy fabric, that is unsafe to the touch and very hazerdous to breathe

Free.blown       dichroic glass formed by blowing and manipulation with tools, without the aid of a mold (in contrast to hand-blown glass jewelry).

Free-Formed dichroic glass       glass jewelry shaped entirely by the fused dichroic glass-blowers art and hand processes as opposed to glass jewelry blown into a mold or press-molded. Free-forming enabled the creator to produce unusual, curious, asymmetric shapes, particularly successful for Tiffany. Daum initiated the free-form Berluze shape. GANTAD

Frigger       Yes, friggars or friggers are just nonsense bits of fused glass, produced by the glass jewelryblower often just to show off his skill. Don't know where the word comes from, but wonder if it's the same as slang frigging about", meaning to fool about. Yours, Margaret Hopkins http://www.antique-fused glass.co.uk MF "on your page http://www.antique-dichroic glass jewelry.co.uk/Collectors_curiosities.htm there is this line 19th century friggar: pipe in white, green & blue. 21 1/4"/54 cm. and at the top it says lacemaker lamps & globes, friggers, patty pans, toddy lifters, stirrup cups " Also shown in MILLER

Frit       Tiny chips of fused glass that can be used in the coloring process

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