Streamer glass
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Streamer glass refers to a sheet of glass with a pattern of glass strings affixed to its surface. Louis Comfort Tiffany made use of such textured glass to represent, for example, twigs, branches and grass.
Streamers are prepared from very hot molten glass, gathered at the end of a punty (pontil) that is rapidly swung back and forth and stretched into long, thin strings that rapidly cool and harden. These hand-stretched streamers are pressed on the molten surface of sheet glass during the rolling process, and become permanently fused.
In order to cut streamer glass, the sheet may be scored on the side without streamers with a carbide glass cutter, and broken at the score line with breaker-grozier pliers.
[edit] See also
- Architectural glass
- Beveled glass
- Cathedral glass
- Drapery glass
- Fracture glass
- Fracture-streamer glass
- Lead came and copper foil glasswork
- Ring mottle glass
- Rippled glass
- Stained glass
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