| BAROQUE™
GLASS: Is a unique, bold swirling color patterns, similar to antique reamy glass. Usually manufactured with cathedral colors, but may also contain swirls of white opal glass. |
BACCARAT
GLASS: In 1765 the Bishop of Metz promoted industry in Baccarat, France.
Verrerie de Sainte Anne in Baccarat made all kinds of utility glassware for windows,
bottles and tableware. In 1815 they were purchased by Aime-Gabriel D'Artigues who
wanted to re-establish his business in France. They on creating high quality lead-crystal
glass. Baccarat is also famous for its paperweights, crystal glass tableware and for lead
crystal sculptures of animals and birds. |
BACKING: Holds together broken fragments of old glass by adhering to them by using a
thin piece of glass with silicone or epoxy. |
| BACKLIGHTING: Use of artificial light to illuminate stained glass not illuminated by sunlight. |
| BAGLEY'S
GLASS: Started in 871 in Knottingley , Northern England and became The Crystal Glass Company Limited. They expanded into crystal and pressed glass and now make glass jars and perfume bottles. |
| BAROLAC
GLASS: Started in Czecho Slovakia at the Inwald Glassworks. Barolac glass comes in different
colors, including their fantastic opalescent, clear and frosted glass, but
there are blue-green and custard versions. |
| BENT GLASS: Created by heating and forming it over a curved mold. |
| BEVELED:
A glass edge cut off at an angle. Light hits the edge, bends the light and produces a prismatic effect. A beveled edge width can vary but the most common width is ½ inch. A beveled edge is made by grinding off the on an angle of along flat edge of the glass. Curved edge bevels must be made by hand and straight-edged bevels are made with multiple machine grinding passes. |
| BIMINI GLASS: Fritz Lampl and his brothers-in-law
Arthur and Josef Berger, architects, started Bimini Glass in Vienna in 1923. In the 1950's Murano glass which is know for filigree opaque swirling stripes, little figures and animals and Bimini Glass was often confused as Murano glass. The difference, Bimini glass is much lighter than most Italian glass. In 1938, Fritz Lampl emigrated to England where he re-established Bimini Ltd in London and changed the name to Orplid Glass. |
| BLANK: A solid piece of molten glass which can be used for future creation of other Art Glass work. |
| BLOCK: A tool used for shaping molten glass into a “Block”. It is usually made of cherry wood and is “wet” while used with the hot glass. |
| BLOCKER: A glass worker that “blows” the first air bubble through a blowpipe. They then transfer the blow-pipe to the next glass worker, a Gaffer. |
| BLOWN GLASS: It is made from blowing a glass bubble on the end of a hollow tube, a blowpipe. The artisan then shapes the glass into make a vase, bottle, glass or other objects by using iron tools, spinning, pinching and rolling. Another method places the bubble of glass into a hollow mold continuing to blown until it expands into all of the
crevices of the mold. |
| BLOWER: A glass worker that blows the air through the blowpipe. Sometimes the gaffer
may blow the air in order to have more control. |
| BLOWPIPE:
A steel pipe which has an air way through the entire length
of the pipe. you would blow in one end, the mouthpiece, and
on the apposite end it has a built up area so the molten
glass will gather and blow into a bubble. |
| BORDER: A band of glass that frames the main artwork in a window which is adjusted
by removal to fit of the stained glass to the window into a specific dimension. |
BOTTLE SHEET GLASS: Is an past method of glass forming which is comprised from four
sides of a glass bottle that was blown into a square mold. A more current
method is the
cylinder-blowing method. |
BOYD'S CRYSTAL ART GLASS: Boyd's Crystal Art Glass started in Cambridge, Ohio in
1978, by Bernard C Boyd and his son Bernard F. Previously, it was known as Degenhart
Glass. Bernard C was a glassmaker for Elizabeth Degenhart and upon her death he was
given the first option to buy the factory and most of the molds. All thought Bernard C
died in 1988, the family business still produces some 300 different colors of glass,
including Vaseline glass, carnival glass, and every color of the rainbow. |
BUBBLE GLASS: Hand made glass almost always has a few small bubbles. Good quality
art glass normally only has a few bubbles unless they are part of the design. Bubbles can
often be found in very old glass or in the work of novice glassmakers.
Creating the effect of bubbles can also be achieved by:
+ Adding chemicals to the glass batch and the reactions will produce random air bubbles
during the melting process.
+ By pushing into molten glass with a spike will create a single bubble, an internal sphere.
+ By pushing a tool with rows of spikes will produce a stream of such bubbles in a line. |
| BUBBLES: While the molten glass is melting in the “pit” gases get trapped. The hotter
the molten glass and the higher quality of the glass can greatly reduce this problem.
Bubbles can be transmitted to the actual artwork during the gathering of the molten
glass. |
| BURNER: Is the air and gas mixture control for lampworking. |
| BURN-MARK: Is caused when the residue ash stuck to the molten glass when using wet
newspaper during the shaping of the molten glass. |
BUTTON: A very small clear piece of molten glass placed on the “working end” of
the hot art piece to assure proper connection of the glass to the pipe and to avoid
dropping and being damaged. Often a button may be used intentionally as part of the actual
artwork as a visual enhancement. |
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