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Bowl of a wine glass in typical cut glass style Cut glass chandelier in Edinburgh. Cut glass or cut-glass is a technique and a style of decorating glass. For some time the style has often been produced by other techniques such as the use of moulding, but the original technique of cutting glass on an abrasive wheel is still used in luxury products.
The glass typically used for these products is now called peachblow glass (not peachbloom), although the original product names differed. [78] Among the rivals to Hobbs, Brockunier, and Company that made peachblow glass were New England Glass Company (Wild Rose), Thomas Webb and Sons (Peach Glass), and Stevens and Williams (Peach Bloom).
Cut glass has been decorated by cutting groves or depressions in its surface. [46] The process involves making the cut, smoothing, and then polishing. The work was done by a glass cutter holding the glass against a wheel on a lathe. [47] The Romans are known to have cut glass, and glass cutting was rediscovered by Germans in the 17th Century.
From the 1920s to the 1950s it was estimated that 90 percent of the production was milk glass. [1] Westmoreland produced carnival glass beginning in 1908 and reissued novelties and pattern glass in carnival treatments in the 1970s until the plant closed in 1984. [3] Westmoreland also produced high quality hand-decorated cut glass. [1]
Designs were cut into the inside walls of all mold parts. Some molds impressed a pattern on the object and base, while others omitted the base. Most molds were in three parts, but could also be constructed of two or four parts. Regardless of the number of parts of a mold, all objects produced in a mold are called three-mold glass. [11]
Fenton had a long history of decorating glass that goes back to its beginnings in 1905. [1] The Fenton Art Glass company started out as a decorating company that purchased blanks from glass manufacturers and placed their own decorations on them. [2] Fenton did not manufacturer glass until 1907 a year after the Williamstown, WV plant was built. [2]
Steuben Glass is an American art glass manufacturer, founded in the summer of 1903 by Frederick Carder and Thomas G. Hawkes in Corning, New York, which is in Steuben County, from which the company name was derived. Hawkes was the owner of the largest cut glass firm then operating in Corning.
Golden Iris was the name of the first caravel glass treatment that Northwood developed in 1908. [3] It was known for its marigold color. [1] The other carnival glass treatments made by Northwood were Emerald, Azure, Florentine, Perl, and Pomona. [5] Carnival glass is identified by the color of the glass, not the color of the treatment.