What is caning with clay?
A polymer clay cane is a log of polymer clay that’s made with a design that runs the entire length of the log. Slices from the cane will reveal a design and all slices from the cane will have identical designs. When slices of polymer clay canes are arranged to make a field of flowers, this can be called millefiori.
What is cane in glass blowing?
In glassblowing, cane refers to rods of glass with color; these rods can be simple, containing a single color, or they can be complex and contain strands of one or several colors in pattern.
What are glass canes used for?
Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century glassblowers often made “glass whimsy” canes as a diversion from commercial production. They twisted, stretched, and blew colored glass to create decorative walking sticks that were too fragile to use (George Meyer, American Folk Art Canes, 1992).
What is Latticino?
Latticino, Italian decorative glassblowing technique. Latticino refers to any glass piece created using colored glass canes. A latticello is a complicated design where the glass artist uses a latticino to create a reticello like pattern.
What is Reticello?
Reticello (Italian, “glass with a small network”), is a type of blown glass made with canes organized in a crisscross pattern to form a fine net, which may contain tiny air traps.
What’s the difference between murrine and millefiori?
Millefiori in Italian stand for a thousand flowers (“mille” [thousand] and “fiori” [flowers]. Millefiori is a glass technique, which produces decorative patterns in the glass. Murrine are designed by layering different colors of molten glass around a core, then heating and stretching it into a rod.
How are the canes used in glass blowing?
The cylinder of canes is sealed at the bottom with jacks and tweezers, to form the beginning of a bubble. The bubble is then blown using traditional glassblowing techniques. Cane can also be incorporated in larger blown glass work by picking it up on a bubble of molten clear glass.
What’s the best way to make a cane?
There are several different methods of making cane. In each, the fundamental technique is the same: a lump of glass, often containing some pattern of colored and clear glass, is heated in a furnace (glory hole) and then pulled, by means of a long metal rod (punty) attached at each end.
When did the invention of glassblowing take place?
As a novel glass forming technique created in the middle of the 1st century BC, glassblowing exploited a working property of glass that was previously unknown to glassworkers; inflation, which is the expansion of a molten blob of glass by introducing a small amount of air to it.
How are canes used in the Ballotini technique?
Ballotini is a cane technique in which several vetro a fili canes are picked up while laid side-by-side rather than a bundle, with a clear glass gather over them. This gather is shaped into a cylinder with the canes directed along the axis, so that the canes form a sort of “fence” across the diameter of the cylinder.