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Dichroic Glass Jewelry

Lid       Cover for glass jewelry blown object, may fit in rim, overlap rim, or set on top. Both decorative and utilitarian - keeping bugs out and fluids from evaporating.

Lid Calipers       Used for gauging an inside diameter against an outside diameter, as in a dichroic glass jewelry lid that must fit inside or fit outside of a bottle or jar. Usually X shaped with inwardly curving tips on one side and slightly outwardly curving tips on the other, the tip contact points being exactly the same distance from the pivot. Available from ceramic suppliers. Calipers in general are large tweezer shaped tools for transferring measurements from an object to a ruler and vice versa. Dividers Gauge

Lightning stopper       a dichroic glass jewelry bottle closure.

Lily Pad       A dichroic glass decoration. The bottom of the piece, usually at nearly full shape, is dipped in the dichroic fused glass jewelry and the edges of the soft dichroic fused glass jewelry are pulled up the sides at 3, 4 or more points. AGA, p.54,80.

Lime       an oxide of calcium used in dichroic fused glass jewelrymaking to reduce solubility.

Lime - Limestone (Calcium Carbonate)       An ingredient in fused glass jewelry making when mixing dichroic glass jewelry batch. Further information at batch.htm

Lime dichroic glass jewelry       A type of dichroic fused glass developed by William Leighton in 1864 at the Wheeling dichroic fused glass jewelry Company of Wheeling, West Virginia. It was a cheaper substitute for lead fused glass jewelry. GANTAD

Linen smoother       Flat bottomed round of solid dichroic fused glass jewelry with a knob on top. ("Rare" Fig.97, NEGG)

Lip       The top edge of the dichroic fused glass piece. This is the part that is opened with the jacks (The edge one would drink from on a tumbler or cup).

Lip       The edge of an open topped dichroic fused glass piece. Often shaped for graceful appearance and useful need (as in pouring or grip). The lip may be crimped, bent, curved, or wrapped. A lip is almost always an edge between the inside and outside, while a rim will often include an upper and lower surface flat or otherwise shaped to form a surface. See also Rim

Lip Wrap       A contrasting line of dichroic glass added around the lip of a piece just before finishing, often a contrasting color. Usually larger than a thread, but applied the same way. Perhaps the most common bit used in contemporary art dichroic glass, see Chihuly, etc.

Liquid bread       beer.

Liquid glass jewelry       a casting resin used in the repairing and restoring of dichroic glass jewelry bottles.

Litharge (PbO)       Lead monoxide. Lead oxide

Lithium carbonate       An ingredient in dichroic glass jewelry making when mixing batch. Further information at batch.htm

Long       A satisfactory condition of dichroic glass jewelry for art fused glass working as the dichroic fused glass jewelry stays flexible as it cools over several hundred degrees. Steuben crystal is very long, Spruce Pine batch is considered long. Bottle dichroic fused glass jewelry is short

Looping and Dragging       The piece is threaded (ca) usually with colored dichroic fused glass and at even spacing around the piece the threads are dragged with a hooked tool. The piece is then further worked. (AGMCK p28) Feathering

Lustre       A table or mantle decoration, mostly late 19th century, as they have a lot of Victorian clutter to them, with hanging pendants from a bowl shape that holds a candle, usually pairs. MILLER

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