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New Products - Blown Glass Home. Getting exactly what you want, guaranteed.. Read about Blown Glass Home here. Aventurine imitates the mineral of the same name, a variety of quartz spangled with mica. Feathered bead-there are two traditional forms of this technique, the "feather" and the "festoon" pattern. nouveau originated in europe in the 1880s, and reached the peak of its popularity ar ound 1900. Wound glassed container-molten glassed container is wound around a mandrel like thread on a spool, forming a bead.

Almorraja (spanish) a rose water sprinkler with many spouts, in northern spain between the 16th and 18th centuries. It is called hard glassed container because it retains it's shape when heated, and does not flow or soften as readily as soft . The alkali is a flux, which reduces the melting point of the major constituent of , silica. Annealing is the process of heating the glassed container very slowly to a set temperature determined by the make and type of .

Carder alabastron (greek), alabastrum latin) a small or flask for perfume or toilet oil, usually with a flattened rim, a narrow neck, a cylindrical body, and two small handles. Acid etching was first developed on a commercial scale by richardson acid polishing the process of making a glossy, polished surface by dipping the object, usually of cut , into a mixture of hydrofluoric and sulfuric acids. This is an integral part of glassmaking because if a hot object is allowed to cool too quickly, it will be highly strained by the time it reaches room temperature; indeed, it may break as it cools.

 
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Dichroic means two color, and each piece of this glassed container will reflect two different colors, depending on the angle light strikes it. Dichroic glassed container-this is glassed container which has been coated on one side with metal oxide layers. Argand lamps are efficient because the tubular wick fe eds oxygen to the flame and the chimney increases the draft. Filigrana-a clear cased glassed container rod with a colored core.

A tool called a rake is used to drag the glassed container in a perpendicular direction, often referred to as "combing".

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