Friday 29 March 2024

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Friday 29 March 2024

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    Murano and glass: glossary (Part two)

    Let's continue with our glass glossary

    incalmo: technique of combining different colors of glass welded together by heat so as to create a single blown piece.
    Only some colors can be combined with this technique, as each color has its own cooling characteristics which, of course, must be compatible.

    The milk: lattimo is an opaque white glass, designed to resemble porcelain, when Chinese porcelains began to be marketed in Europe.

    Teacher: he who is able to perform, from an incandescent and shapeless lump of glass, works of art and objects of daily use of great quality.

    Grinding: procedure used to remove the attachment points to the work rods from objects. This operation is performed cold, after the objects have come out of the mittens.

    Muffle: Special oven to slowly lower the temperatures of glass objects just made.
    The processes, the colors, the joints have different tensions and these must be dissolved slowly in order to eliminate them all.
    Otherwise the object is destined to inevitably break and become useless. The thicker the object, the longer it has to stay in the flask, in some cases up to 36 hours.

    Murrina: murrina is a piece of cut cane. It is usually obtained with the combination of various types of colors in vitreous paste superimposed to form the desired design and brought to fusion. The result is a long rod whose section has the desired shape and colors. Cut into discs with a length ranging from a few millimeters to 3 - 4 centimeters, the shape obtained is the murrina.
    The juxtaposition of several murrine on a plate allows the processing of the murrina itself both for the preparation of various objects and for the decoration with the hot-hanging of large objects.

    Opacification: it is that operation that serves to make the glass non-transparent and is obtained by treating the object with hydrofluoric acid.

    Glassy paste: with this indication there are opaque glasses, very often in bright colors, and are used to adorn both very particular chandeliers, the famous pasta flowers, and mirrors, with which the ornamental rosettes are prepared.

    reticello: is a variant of the watermark. With the filigree barrel, two rows are formed, overlapping and crossed, fused together, they have a peculiar peculiarity: in the intersections of the barrels a small air bubble remains imprisoned and appears in the center of the filigree threads, giving it a sense of lightness .
    The glasses made with this technique are very popular, but also the plates, bottles and cups.

    Rezzonico: A particular chandelier takes its name from one of the most important Venetian noble families, the first example of which was made precisely to be placed in the great room of Ca 'Rezzonico. It is made up of hundreds of pieces and due to its modular parts, it can take considerable measures, up to 7 meters in height and a diameter of almost three meters.

    Nail varnish: is the glass painting operation. On the finished product they are painted with special glazes which after installation must be baked in the ovens.

    zanfirico: is that processing technique with which plates and glasses are preferably made.
    It is also a variant of the watermark. In this case, the rods produced are intertwined in various fine shapes and juxtaposed so that you can have blown glass that leaves from the center to the outside as wedges.

    Source: Venicewiki.org

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