Glass Making Techniques
Posted by admin on September 2nd, 2010Verre Pate is labor-intensive manufacture of glass, which dates from the second millennium BC It is believed that Mesopotamia were the first to leave a written record of the glass process, which they used for the manufacture of glass beads for jewelry jewelry for children and the manufacture of glass sculpture.
Improvement of the method of glass were represented the ancient Egyptians, using paste Verre in complex mosaics and create storage and drinking vessels between 1500 and 1000 BC But it was the opening pastry Verre French archaeologists in the nineteenth century, made art glass, than it is today.
While the pie Verre is one of the oldest and simplest methods of glass processing it at the same time, one of the most complex to be used correctly. The problems stem from the nature of the glass itself, which not only fluid when molten and brittle, solid after cooling. Glass magic and some mysterious substance, and this type of glass is an interesting way to manipulate the glass into stunning crystal figurines or decorative glass vases, art.
When used in combination with colored crystal, metallic salts or oxides, glass sculptures, crystal ornaments or crystal vases pate process Verre outstanding and beautiful works of art. The big advantage of using this technology of glass compared to other processes of glass production is the possibility for precise placement of particular colors in the form before shooting. In traditional French pate Verre, the artist mixed crushed glass and enamel to form a paste, which was introduced in the form, and then fired.
Other ways of filling out a form with colored glass, often leads to a shift in the glass when molten, to its original position before the shot, but this pie Verre helps to control this transition, based on the glass paste, rather than the individual glass beads.
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