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Rippled glass refers to textured glass with marked surface waves. [1] Louis Comfort Tiffany made use of such textured glass to represent, for example, water or leaf veins. The texture is created during the glass sheet-forming process. A sheet is formed from molten glass with a roller that spins on itself, while travelling forward.
In numismatics, reeded edges are often referred to as "ridged" or "grooved" (American usage), or "milled" (British usage). [3] Some coins, such as United States quarters and dimes, 1 euro, Australian 5, 10, 20 cents, 1 and 2 dollars, as well many other current coins, have reeded edges. One reason for having reeded edges was to prevent ...
Unless stated otherwise, the properties of fused silica (quartz glass) and germania glass are derived from the SciGlass glass database by forming the arithmetic mean of all the experimental values from different authors (in general more than 10 independent sources for quartz glass and T g of germanium oxide glass). The list is not exhaustive.
Fracture glass refers to a sheet of glass with a pattern of irregularly shaped, thin glass wafers affixed to its surface. Tiffany made use of such textured glass to represent, for example, foliage seen from a distance. The irregular glass wafers, called fractures, are prepared from very hot, colored molten glass, gathered at the end of a ...
Dieu★ protège★la★France★★★ "God protect France" on the edge of 1873 five-franc coins Examples of edge inscriptions or edge lettering include e pluribus unum on the edge of U.S. Presidential dollar coins, various national €2 edge inscriptions, and various phrases on the UK one pound coin, most commonly decus et tutamen.
Texture-wise, it was a bit surprising for one editor, who said it felt "fluffy and light, but a bit too bubbly." ... These glass food containers are over 40% off: 'I like them more than my Pyrex ...
Glass is enamelled by mixing powdered glass, either already coloured (more usual) or clear glass mixed with the pigments, [1] with a binder such as gum arabic that gives a thick liquid texture allowing it to be painted with brushes. Generally the desired colours only appear when the piece is fired, adding to the artist's difficulties.
Skirts that owed something to Vionnet, bosoms proud, cinched in midriff, black lace exaggerated proportions, and a ‘new’ glass skin texture inspired by the vintage porcelain dolls created by ...