Fundamentals 基礎

glassblowing

production glassblowing

大批量生產(chǎn)玻璃產(chǎn)品

glassblower

hot shop

Tools 工具

punty

(in glass-making) an iron rod used to hold or shape soft glass.

(制玻璃時取熔融玻璃用的)鐵桿

blowpipe

（吹制玻璃器皿的）吹管a long tube for blowing glass into a particular shape

annealer

anneal

給（金屬或玻璃）退火to heat metal or glass and allow it to cool slowly, in order to make it stronger or softer

glory hole

A glory hole is equipment that glass blowers use for re-heating glass to soften it so it can be further worked or to keep it hot enough to avoid cracking during other work like adding handles, feet, lampworking.

關于為什么叫g(shù)lory hole：

While there is no concrete answer, there are several plausible origins of this term. In an old factory, where smoke and dust were everywhere, a 2100° opening would have created an illusion not unlike that seen in paintings of saints and angels where “The Glory” radiated from their heads. A break in the clouds where sunlight passes through is also called a glory hole. However, the term has more recently fallen out of use and the term “Reheating Furnace” is more widely used.

（出處：//www.cmog.org/faq/why-it-called-glory-hole）

Wooden Paddle

壓平熱玻璃或?qū)ζ溥M行其他塑形的工具

optic molding

using a cylindrical or truncated conical one-piece mold with a patterned interior. The mold is open at the top so that glass can be dipped in to create a pattern on the exterior of a gather of glass or on a bubble.

This technique was invented by Roman glassworkers. It was indispensable in glasshouses of the Middle Ages and flourished in Venice. Also known as dip molding, it remains popular today.

Container 容器名

lacrimarum

a tear collector

candelabra

枝狀大燭臺（或燈臺）an object with several branches for holding candles or lights

Technique 技藝

inclamo

The technique of constructing an object, usually a vessel, by fusing two or more blown glass elements. The process, first practiced in the Islamic world in the Middle Ages, demands great precision because the edges of the adjoining elements must have precisely the same diameter.

reticello

Reticello (Italian, “glass with a small network”) A type of blown glass made with canes organized in a crisscross pattern to form a fine net, which may contain tiny air traps.

murrine

Murrine, a glassmaking technique, first appeared in the Middle East over 4,000 years ago. The process, which refers to the colorful patterns and abstract images made in a glass cane that are revealed only when the rod is cut into thin cross-sections, was later revived by Venetian glassmakers in Murano during the early 15th century.

mezza filigrana

a technique that has been used since the sixteenth century in which a series of clear glass rods are fused with a piece of lattimo (milky) or colored glass at the center.

bit work

Small amounts of molten glass are added on top of other decorative elements (such as “wings’), then manipulated with tools.

battuto

The word used to describe the multifaceted wheel-engraved surface that resembles beaten metal.

quenching

submerging glass in water 表層迅速冷卻，形成裂紋

Important Places 重要地點

Corning Museum of Glass

（好想去?。。┎┪镳^的網(wǎng)站也有很多玻璃及玻璃制作相關的資源，特別好。玻璃詞典網(wǎng)址如下：

//www.cmog.org/research/glass-dictionary

History 歷史

最近正好在讀Geoffrey Blainey的A Short History of the World，里面提到了一些關于玻璃制作歷史的內(nèi)容，正好在這里稍作摘抄。

• The Ancient Egyptians had produced first vessels of hollow glass.
• The Syrians ivnented the blowpipe for blowing glass into round thin-walled vessels in about 200BC.
• The Romans could manufacture a mirror...but the Roman mirriors were not much clearer than a still pool of dark water.
• It was Venice... which imroved on the old Roman methods of making glass.
  • The glassmakers of Venice had become so numerous, and the fires burning in their workshops posed such a danger of setting fire to the whole city, that in 10291 the government moved them to the adjacent idland of Murano.
  • the first mirrors of looking glases of any clarity were made in Venice about 1500

Sprouted Potatoes

非常喜歡第一季第八季植物主題Debrah的作品和發(fā)言，特地在這里記錄一下。

原文如下：

我的作品贊美與花朵截然相反的東西?；ǘ涫墙?jīng)典的美。它一切都很完美：顏色、香味、比例。它是生命的典范。但是土豆擁有強大的力量。在我看來，它代表不同，代表被邊緣化的，而這讓我個人很有共鳴。因為它的非典型的美和隱喻力，我選擇做發(fā)芽的土豆。

My piece glamorizes everything that a flower is not. A flower is a classic beauty. It has everything going for it: color, beautiful scent, great proportions. It epitomizes life. But the potato is a powerhouse. To me, it represents otherness and those that have been marginalized and I personally resonate with that them a lot, for myself and for my work. So for its atypical beauty and its metaphorical power, I chose the sprouted potato.

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