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Fused and Dichroic Glass Jewelry

Pâte-de-Verre       Finely crushed dichroic glass, mixed with a glass jewelry binding agent (sometimes water) to make a malleable paste, and metallic oxides for color, modeled like clay, then placed into a refractory glass mold and heated just enough to vitrify the paste without having its constituent colored sections run together. It normally needed a very long annealing time. Pãte-de-verre may be heavy or light, opaque or translucent, matte or crystalline, depending on its components and time in the furnace. Modern pate-de-verre was first made by Henri Cros. It was also made by Despret, Jean Cros, Dammouse, Brateau, Décorchennont, Alméric Walter, Daum, Argy-Rousseau, Rangel d'Illzach, Frederick Carder and the Société du Chryso-cérame. GANTAD

Pacioffis       Wooden jacks used to open up large pieces like bowls and plates

Pacioffis (Cutting Edge) Parchoffi (Moore - Palmer) Rod Tongs (Putsch)       Wooden tipped dichroic glass jacks used to open pieces without leaving jack marks on the dichroic glass. "I made some a couple of years ago. They are soaking in water somewhere in the shop." Terry Maxwell. MF uses cherry wood dowels from woodworking catalog, as singles, not pairs, various diameters. Image

Padded dichroic glass       The addition to the parison of some glass jewelry of a different dichroic glass jewelry color. When annealed, this can be cameo-carved or etched, and is as effective as a two-layered vase 'without the problems inherent in blowing one vessel into another and without the need to remove vast areas of the outer layer to fit in with the required design. GANTAD

Paddle       A wooden tool used to flatten the bottom of a glass jewelry piece

Paddles       Boards with dichroic glass handles, fruit wood, usually cherry, sometimes graphite or metal. Used for flattening dichroic glass and for shielding gaffer's arm. Homemade $5 stock at hardwood/woodworkers shop. A.R.T.Co $8-14, Paoli $15. Graphite: Moore $40, Paoli $35. A Tagliol Paddle is a metal handled, thin metal bladed handle used in traditional Italian work, especially for cutting and shaping sculptural work. $55-70. CGS sells 4' handled flat rectangular paddles for moving items in a garage and also sell thick cork paddles. Image at right is some well used paddles shown in Harvey Littleton's book.

Painting       Painting, as connected to dichroic glass, is confused by various levels of technology. At the glass jewelry peak are enamels - ground dichroic glass - in a media which allows painting an image. When complete, the piece must be carefully fired to melt the enamel into place without distorting the piece. Very durable. In modern times, paints that are relatively transparent have been developed to allow painting dichroic fused glass to look like stained dichroic fused glass jewelry. These take two forms - plastics that set at room temperature and paints that require heating in an ordinary oven - less and more durable. dichroic fused glass jewelry can be used as a carrier for a painting with ordinary paint, most spectacularly with reverse painting so the image is viewed through the fused glass. Flat glass can be used as a printing plate - paint or ink being applied and transferred to paper in a press.

Panel Weight       a paperweight in which clusters of similar canes form alternating sections separated either by exposed sections of the weight's ground, filigree twists, canes or rods,

Paperweight       for the purposes of this book, a glass sphere or plaque enclosing decorative elements such as millefiori canes. lampworked motifs of colored glass, sulphide portraits, or metallic motifs.

Paperweight       Flat bottomed, often spherical top, glass jewelry. See Weight

Paperweight style       The kinds of glass lampworked decorations used in paperweight can be used in the thick walls of a vessel, such as a paperweight vase. The level of creative detail in well made ones is well above that of a murrine image of a flower. Lundberg Studios makes these, one example. This is in contrast to actually making a paperweight shape into part of the object, where it has been used as a bowl center, part of the stem or as the knob of a lid.

Parison       The small glass jewelry bubble and first gather

Parison       name for shaped dichroic glass blob at end of dichroic glass jewelry pipe in early working

Parison       an inflated gather.

Parison       The gather of molten dichroic glass jewelry taken from the kiln on a blow-pipe and blown into its initial globular shape. GANTAD

Paste Mold       A metal mold that has been treated with a baked on compound, special or linseed oil and cork, so that it has a soft finish that can be soaked in water but is much more durable than wood. 2003-08-20

Pasterelli       A flat plate mounted on a steel rod that can be used to hold latticino glass, sheet glass jewelry, murini and fused glass components, while they are in the gloryhole

Pastorale - Pastoralli - Pastorali       An Italian term for the metal tool on which pieces of fused glass jewelry cane get preheated in the glory hole or furnace. Don't have one of these. If I'm going to pick up dichroic fused glass canes or inclusions I usually place them on a cane marver and heat them with a torch. Another alternati

Pastry Mold Cane       a millefiori cane which flares ("skirts") out at its basal end; this type of cane is found particularly in Clichy weights.

Pate d'Email       A dichroic fused glass form of pâte-de-verre, an which various borates and silicates are mixed and pulverized. The paste vitrifies at a low temperature, combining with various metallic oxides which provide color. The result looks somewhat like unglazed porcelain, and is very fragile. It was made by Albert Dainmouse and François Décorcnement. GANTAD

Pâte-de-Cristal       A form of pâte-de-verre 'which has a translucent, crystalline dichroic fused glass aspect. GANTAD

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