Glass production

light-conducting fiber

colored glass used as an art material

material consisting of numerous extremely fine fibers of glass

town in the Czech Republic

thumb|A glassworker blows air into the glass, creating a cavity inside.

thumb|upright=1.2|Vase (1872) manufactured by the Venice & Murano Glass & Mosaic Co. (Victoria and Albert Museum) Millefiori () is a glasswork technique which produces distinctive decorative patterns on glassware. The term millefiori is a combination of the Italian words (thousand) and (flowers). Apsley Pellatt in his book Curiosities of Glass Making was the first to use the term "millefiori", which appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1849; prior to that, the beads were called mosaic beads. While the use of this technique long precedes the term "millefiori", it is now most frequently

alt=|upright=1.2|thumb|A glass paperweight commemorating the closure of the Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital (2002) A paperweight is a small solid object heavy enough, when placed on top of papers, to keep them from blowing away in a breeze or from moving under the strokes of a painting brush (as with Chinese calligraphy). While any object, such as a stone, can serve as a paperweight, decorative paperweights of metal, glass, jade or other material are also produced, either by individual artisans or factories.

species of sponge

industry and economic sector

material; type of glass

processing of waste glass into usable products

tool used for cutting glass

small decorative glass object, usually with a pierced hole

form of glass made by pressing molten glass into a mold

1958 Dutch short documentary film directed by Bert Haanstra

early type of window glass

thumb|Lampwork Glass Eye Cabochon Tutorial Boro thumb|right|Lampwork glass beads Lampworking is a type of glasswork in which a torch or lamp is used to melt the glass. Once in a molten state, the glass is formed by blowing and shaping with tools and hand movements. It is also known as flameworking or torchworking, as the modern practice no longer uses oil-fueled lamps. Although lack of a precise definition for lampworking makes it difficult to determine when this technique was first developed, the earliest verifiable lampworked glass is probably a collection of beads thought to date to the fif

building material typically used as transparent glazing material in the building envelope

oven used to melt raw materials into glass

the joining of two optical fibers end-to-end

process for making objects from molten glass

hand-blown glass

artwork pieces made of glass since the mid-19th century