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Collectible Glassware

Lusters-these are colors and metals like , which are painted on the surface, and then fired in a kiln to leave a permanent decoration. This shaded effect is due to the presence of in the batch. Latticino-the twisted canes of multi colored , cased in clear, are called latticino. The company has a 500 year history of glassed container manufacture, and countless beads have been produced with this glassed container throughout those years.

Marvering-to shape heated glassed container into a cylinder, it is rolled over a flat marble, stone, or cast iron surface called a "marver", and the process is called marvering. Amphora (latin) a jar with two handles.

Collectible Glassware info: A single color can be used at a time, or mixed colors applied to form a pattern of spots. Alabaster a type of translucent white , similar to opal , first produced in bohemia in the 19th century. The glassed container is heated to 1706f when fluid, and solidifies when cooled to 1202f. In recent years, they began controlling the mixes and testing their glassed container for compatibility.


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