A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

C

Cane Glass — art glass, handblown glass
Long thin pieces of glass, usually round and colored, used to build millefiori and murrini and as rods to decorate glass.  
 

Coil Method — ceramics
One of the oldest methods of forming pottery. Long strands of clay which are laid on top of each other and joined through blending coil to coil. Coil pieces can be almost any shape and any size.  
 

Cold Glass — art glass, handblown glass
Working with glass at room temperature. Examples are stained glass, glass carving, and etching.  
 

Cold Shop — art glass, handblown glass
A glassworking studio that does not have furnace or glory hole . Opposite of Hot Shop.  
 

Combing — art glass, handblown glass
A warm glass technique to manipulating glass by raking a tool across the surface of molten glass. Glass temperature is 1650 to 1750 degrees Fahrenheit.  
 

Cut Glass — art glass, handblown glass
Grinding stones that are worked wet to cut designs onto glass.  
 

D

Dichroic Glass — art glass, handblown glass
Type of glass and process. There are glasses, usually with colloidal gold in them, which have a distinctly different color in reflected or transmitted light. More recently a kind of glass that is distinctively colored with iridescence that changes with the light. This process involved depositing a thin layer of metal on the surface in a vacuum, which is moderately expensive. The glass is most often cut in small pieces and used as decorative detail in fused pieces. The film burns off at higher temps.  
 

Drusy — handcrafted jewelry
A stone that is covered with a large number of minute crystals.