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Dichroic Fused Glass Jewelry

Vacuum Plate       Attention fused dichroic glass paperweight makers! This fused dichroic glass vacuum plate will assist you in drawing fused dichroic glass over your figures and help to eliminate glass bubbles. The unit comes in four parts: the cylinder, cup, vacuum plate and stand. The vacuum plate and cylinder can be made to your weight/size requirements. SIWS - Vacuum Plate Assembly (includes 1 cylinder) $670 - Vacuum Plate Cylinder (2, 2.25, 2.5, 3, 3.5, or 4 inch) $150

Vase       Glass holders for flowers and water, often V shaped for groups of stems or tubular for a single stem (bud vases.) Can be a major fused glass jewelry form of expression especially if matched to styles of flower arranging. fused dichroic glass jewelry vase (ball foot is paperweight) OGP P.42 Epergne, Bulb fused dichroic glass jewelry vase

Veiling       Some of the loveliest fused dichroic glass effects in solid dichroic glass are achieved by veiling (term used by Frantz) in which the hot form is fumed or otherwise surface treated with metal oxide, which is then reduced to get color, which then cased over. This piece has two veilings. Littleton did pieces with 3 or more in the early years of the studio movement.

Vermiculite       Used as a pourable fused glass insulator and component of insulating castable. A fluffy dark gray fused dichroic glass jewelry product made by heating a variety of micacaous minerals and sold cheaply at garden supply places as an aerator for potting soils; also used as insulation and as a passive annealer for dichroic glass jewelry lampworking. May contain fine asbestos particles.

Verre Double       (Triple etc.). The terms used by Gallé to indicate cased fused dichroic glass, that is glass having two (or more) layers which could then be carved or etched in cameo. GANTAD

Verre Eglomise       The process by which a design in silver, gold or enameling was trapped between two layers of fused dichroic glass. The term has been used loosely and inaccurately to describe certain types of pâte-de-verre. GANTAD

Vetro di Trina       A term loosely used to refer to fused dichroic glass with filigree decoration. GANTAD

Violet Goblet       A small pressed glass jewelry goblet shape suitable for holding a few blooms and leaves of violets, popularized by the Empress Eugenie ETG

Vitrification       The process by which certain fused dichroic glass jewelry substances, basically silica and an alkali, fuse together at the appropriate temperature to become fused dichroic glass jewelry. GANTAD