Some Useful Glass Terms
_Batch. The mixture of raw material used for glass.
Blowpipe. A hollow rod used to inflate the glass object and
attached opposite the pontil rod.
Cane. A long glass rod, plated layer upon layer in various colors.
Cradle. The chair in which a glass maker sits to finish his work.
Cullet. Pieces of broken glass used by glass paperweight
makers for the weights and also to add to the batch to replenish it.
Double Overlay. Two coatings of opaque enamel, first always white, next a color used on old weights before faceting.
Faceting. The various cuttings used by factorieson the outside of a weight.
Flash. A color applied by firing. Used in some of the Bohemian glass, but likely to wear off and not found in a good old weight.
Gaffer. The foreman or superintendent of a glass factory.
Gall. The scum taken from the melted glass after first boiling.
Latticinio. A decorative structure used originally by the Venetians and later by others in their paperweights. It was formed by the crossing and interlacing of delicate bands of white opaque glass.
Lehr (or Lear). An annealing furnace or oven for the glass.
Marver. An iron table upon which the glass is rolled to make it
smooth when taken from the oven.
Metal. The material used in the fusion of the glass.
Overlay. A colored coating of clear glass applied after weight is
finished and before faceting.
Pontil (puntee, ponty). A long solid iron rod used to hold the glass object being made.
Punty. A concave cutting which decreases the size of the encased pattern in a weight-in contrast to the convex form which increases the object. A weight with this kind of depression sometimes took the place of a wafer glass.
Set-Ups. The small pieces cut from a cane and used to form the patterns in a weight.
Blowpipe. A hollow rod used to inflate the glass object and
attached opposite the pontil rod.
Cane. A long glass rod, plated layer upon layer in various colors.
Cradle. The chair in which a glass maker sits to finish his work.
Cullet. Pieces of broken glass used by glass paperweight
makers for the weights and also to add to the batch to replenish it.
Double Overlay. Two coatings of opaque enamel, first always white, next a color used on old weights before faceting.
Faceting. The various cuttings used by factorieson the outside of a weight.
Flash. A color applied by firing. Used in some of the Bohemian glass, but likely to wear off and not found in a good old weight.
Gaffer. The foreman or superintendent of a glass factory.
Gall. The scum taken from the melted glass after first boiling.
Latticinio. A decorative structure used originally by the Venetians and later by others in their paperweights. It was formed by the crossing and interlacing of delicate bands of white opaque glass.
Lehr (or Lear). An annealing furnace or oven for the glass.
Marver. An iron table upon which the glass is rolled to make it
smooth when taken from the oven.
Metal. The material used in the fusion of the glass.
Overlay. A colored coating of clear glass applied after weight is
finished and before faceting.
Pontil (puntee, ponty). A long solid iron rod used to hold the glass object being made.
Punty. A concave cutting which decreases the size of the encased pattern in a weight-in contrast to the convex form which increases the object. A weight with this kind of depression sometimes took the place of a wafer glass.
Set-Ups. The small pieces cut from a cane and used to form the patterns in a weight.
