Glass Techniques

What is Glass Enamelling

When glass powder is fused onto the surface to create a pattern

what are Glass drops or ridges

When glass is dripped onto a surface or glass is pressed into ridges, this is done when glass is laid over a stone to give it shapes

Mezzastampura

When glass is blown into a half mould, and the rest is blown normally, usually the base and then the top

Fusion

done with enambelling (check)

Muffa muffola

flat sheets of stained glass (check in class)

Mould egypt

When glass in placed into a mould and then fused onto a surface somtimes in the shape of a body

what was done prior to blown glass

glass would be wrapped around something like animal dung or clay mixed with water and well as moulds

Ribboning?

you lay out the lines of glass melt it and then lay it on something like a stone that changes its shape and a rim is made with a stick of hot glass, as it cools you then have the bowl or whatever see photo  - the circular stuff in the yellow means that more glass has been melted inside the line

Muina

small squares of patterned glass - it is a stick of glass that is cut with a drawing in the middle like those lollie videos where they make the ones with the pictures

Cameo Glass

blow a vase of blue glass, once it is finished it is covered with a layer of latimo (white glass, usually smoother than other glass), then when the object is cold it is caved to create the drawing disappeared then reappeared in the renaissance