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murrhine,
murrina,‘murrine;
Murrine glass is a section of glass rod that resembles a lozenge, usually
round or square with a decorative pattern running through its length.
The pattern can be as simple as a circle of colour sitting in a clear
frame or as complex as a portrait or the Lords Prayer, as American artist Richard Marquis has managed to achieve. Murrine rods generally range in
size from 5mm to 20mm.
Murrini can be used singly or in small numbers in a blown glass piece as
a decorative application on a plain background, or they can be used to
form the whole body of the glass object. In this case the glassblower
designs the intense repetitive pattern which is unique and characteristic
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cold working
This is the general term given to a range of techniques which are used
on glass when it is ‘cold’. The term is used to distinguish shaping or manipulating which is applied to glass while it is hot as against cold, the other field of skills and discipline in shaping glass. Cold working
refers to techniques such as grinding, polishing, sand-blasting, acid etching, wheel cutting & engraving. |
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reticello
Vetro a reticello, translated as ‘glass with a small network’.
This is a variant of the ‘filigrana’ technique that was already known in Murano in the XVI.
It is obtained by joining two conical vases under heat, made up of thin threads, one twisted clockwise and then the other anticlockwise. A network is thus formed in the pattern of a chessboard. The threads (cane), with it’s different thicknesses within each quadrangle, cause the characteristic ‘air bubbles’ that appear in the pattern. |
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