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Vase (1872) manufactured by the Venice & Murano Glass & Mosaic Co. (Victoria and Albert Museum) Millefiori (Italian: [ˌmilleˈfjoːri]) is a glasswork technique which produces distinctive decorative patterns on glassware. The term millefiori is a combination of the Italian words "mille" (thousand) and "fiori" (flowers). [1]
Caithness Glass is a Scottish artistic glassware manufacturing company. It was established in Wick, Caithness , Scotland in 1961 by Robin Sinclair, 2nd Viscount Thurso . It was rescued [ citation needed ] by George Mackie, Baron Mackie of Benshie in 1966.
A glass paperweight commemorating the closure of the Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital (2002). A paperweight is a small solid object heavy enough, when placed on top of papers, to keep them from blowing away in a breeze or from moving under the strokes of a painting brush (as with Chinese calligraphy).
A fiery red blended to yellow. [20] Amethyst A deep to pale purple. [20] Blue Pale to deep blue. [20] Cobalt Blue A deep shade of blue and the most sought after. [20] Independence Blue 1975-76 A cobalt blue carnival treatment made during the U.S.Bicentennial. [21] Green This color ranges from a deep green to a light yellow green. [20] Marigold
Opalescent glass. The term "opalescent glass" is commonly used to describe glass where more than one color is present, being fused during the manufacture, as against flashed glass in which two colors may be laminated, or silver stained glass where a solution of silver nitrate is superficially applied, turning red glass to orange and blue glass to green.
Blown plate was made by hand-grinding broad sheet glass. As the process was labour-intensive, and expensive, blown plate was mainly used for carriages and mirrors rather than in windows for buildings. [1] Other methods for making hand-blown glass included: broad sheet, crown glass, polished plate and cylinder blown sheet. These methods of ...