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A glossary of terms used in Glass art - Cane, rods of glass with color, either single or multiple (see also twistie)
- Cast, [1] Glass formed by pouring hot glass into a mold (sand casting) or kiln-casting using the cire perdue (lost wax) method.
- Frit, crushed glass often melted onto other glass to produce patterns and color
- Graverre, The graphite or charcoal drawing is fused between layers of the glass sheets. The technique is ideal for capturing the spontaneity of drawing.
The term is composed of the part ‘Gra’ which stands for ‘Graphite’ and ‘verre’ which means ‘glass’ in French. Zoja Trofimiuk, glass artist created this technique in 1999. - Incalmo, the grafting or joining together, while still hot, of two separately blown glass elements to produce a single object.[2]
- Lampwork, alternate name Flamework[1], the technique of forming glass using a hand held heat source, formerly lamps, more usually today a gas blow torch, to shape glass rods and manipulate them with tongs, forceps, knives and other small tools.
- Lehr, a specialized, temperature-controlled kiln for annealing glass.[3]
- Liuli, ancient Chinese glass art
- Mandrel, metal rod used to make the hole in a glass bead
- Millefiori, [1] an Italian term (a thousand flowers) describing glass decorated with slices of colored canes embedded in clear molten glass, which produces distinctive decorative patterns on glassware, often flower-like designs.
- Murrine, Italian term for patterns or images made in a glass cane (long rods of glass) that are revealed when cut in cross-sections
- Pate de verre[1], a paste of ground or crushed glass, and the technique of casting this material into a mold; also applied to a more general range of cast-glass objects.
- Prunt, a small blob of glass fused to a piece of glass, often impressed with a pattern or stamp
- Rod, a rod of glass used as a raw material in forming and fusing glass
- Twistie, a cane formed out of different coloured glass twisted together
[edit] References - ^ a b c d | last = Fairbanks | first = Jonathan L. | coauthors = Pat Warner | title = Glass Today by American Studio Artists | publisher = Museum of Fine Arts Boston | date = 1997 | pages = 75 | isbn = 0-87846-447-6
- ^ Carl I. Gable, Murano Magic: Complete Guide to Venetian Glass, its History and Artists (Schiffer, 2004), pp. 13-41. ISBN 0-7643-1946-9.
- ^ E. F. Collins (1921) Electrically heated glass annealing Lehr. Journal of the American Ceramic Society 4 (5), 335–349.
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