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Bitwork, Wraps
 
Incorporating previously prepared elements into a piece of hot glass. This technique can be used for example to create handles...
Crackle glass
 
This ornamental technique aims to give glass a deliberately rough and fractured appearance. The hot parison is plunged into co...
Filigrana
 
Once called “latticino” or “latticinio” by the Venetians, then “vetro a filigrana”, this name describes a variety of clear, bl...
Graal
 
A decorative technique developed by the Swedish glass manufacturer Orrefors and the master glassmaker Knut Bergvist around 191...
Incalmo
 
The “incalmo” technique consists of setting up tiers of two different colored parisons in a single piece. Very exacting, this ...
Intreposed painting
 
Technique of decorating beneath the surface of an object which consists of interposing a painted decor between two layers of g...
Lamelles - plaquettes
 
The technique of decorating glass put into practice under this name by Daum consists of applying extremely fine laminations of...
Marquetry
 
Emile Gallé, the master glass artist who was first to confer upon his work the status of “objet d’art”, perfected a technique ...
Murrine
 
Murrine is the Italian term which refers to the multi-colored, cross cut segments of cane (stretched glass rods) that reveal m...
Powders
 
Powders of vitrifiable color can be used to decorate either the surface or the body of molten glass. The technique consists of...

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