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adjectiveGlass and ceramics
Of glass: covered with stony speckles, symptoms of incipient devitrification.
Glass and ceramics
33 entries in this trade.
blowpipe
A long narrow pipe, rotated in the hands, upon which glassware is blown.
borsella
An instrument used for extending or contracting glass.
bullion
The mark left on a glass piece from its attachment to a punty.
bullseye
The mark left on a glass piece from its attachment to a punty.
cacher box
A triangular iron trough lined with wood and used for holding worked glass pieces while they await the lehr.
cane
A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking.
conciator
The person who prepares the materials to be made into glass, and/or works and tempers them.
found
The period of time when a furnace is at its hottest; the interval in which the furnace is meant to fully melt glass.
frigger
An object made by a glassmaker (or, later, other craftsmen), as an ornament, a testing sample, or a test of skill.
gadget
A spring clip attached to the end of a punty in order to grasp the foot of a glass without leaving a bullion while finishing the bowl.
hot end
The part of a glassworks comprising the forehearth, forming machines, and annealing ovens.
journey
The total time spent melting and working one piece.
lagre
A larger sheet of glass on which glass-sheet cylinders are spread.
lampwork
A method for working with blown glass that does not require a furnace.
lampworker
Someone who works with lampwork
lehr
A long oven or kiln, often having a moving belt, used for annealing glass.
linnet hole
A small flue connecting a furnace and a caulker, of about the diameter to admit a linnet.
marver
A flat heatproof surface on which a gather of glass is rolled into shape.
merese
A flat, sharp-edged button, often a disc-shaped knob, separating the stem of a drinking-glass from the foot.
moil
The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
muff
A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
parison
A spherical mass of glass, rolled immediately after being taken out of the furnace.
pontil mark
A ring-shaped or irregular scar on a glass object from where it was joined with a pontil or blowpipe. Common on bottles prior to the 1830s.
prunt
A small piece of glass fused to the main body of a piece of glasswork and then shaped or pressed, for decoration
punt
A thin glass rod which is temporarily attached to a larger piece in order to better manipulate the larger piece.
pâte de verre
A technique in which finely crushed glass, colorants, and binders are set in a mold and fired in a kiln.
rigaree
Parallel scores on a raised band, tear, or collar produced using ridges on the edge of a metal wheel.
soffietta
A tool consisting of a metal tube, often swan necked, attached to a conical nozzle. The nozzle is used to block the mouth of a glass vessel so that it can be further inflated by blowing into the tube.
step
The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.
tower
A metal stand used as a pivot to support a punty at a furnace.
way
A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass containing 60 bunches.
whimsy
The support that protects a finished piece as it is detached from a punty.