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Glass Blowing
 Acanthus (1) a group of mediterranean, asian, and african plants with large, spiny leaves; hence, (2) that resembles the leaves of the species acanthus spinosus. Murrini-glassed container is bundled, , and pulled into cane similar to mosaic , but the goal is to produce a picture in a cross section of the finished glassed container cane. There are several techniques used to manipulate glassed container that are forms of bending, such as raking. At-the-fire the process of reheating a object at the glory hole during manufacture, to permit further inflation and/or manipulation with tools. Air trap, air lock an air-filled void, which may be of almost any shape.
| Glass Blowing info: Latticino-the twisted canes of multi colored , cased in clear, are called latticino. It is held at this heat for a soaking period, during which the glassed container relaxes all stress, but does not change shape, or slump. The cut pieces of cane are finished by flame polishing, or by tumbling with abrasives. The alkali is a flux, which reduces the melting point of the major constituent of , silica. |
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