Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process of sculpting glass by twirling thin rods of colored glass over a gas-oxygen burner.
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- verb Present participle of
lampwork .
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Examples
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By now it had a gothic/mideval feel to it, and I wanted to enhance that, so I used a red ribbon with one of the glass beads I made in lampworking class as a bookmark.
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By now it had a gothic/mideval feel to it, and I wanted to enhance that, so I used a red ribbon with one of the glass beads I made in lampworking class as a bookmark.
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She creates using a technique called lampworking and melts the glass with a torch before manipulating it with various tools until the desired result is achieved.
Luxist Rigel Celeste 2010
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She creates using a technique called lampworking and melts the glass with a torch before manipulating it with various tools until the desired result is achieved.
Luxist Rigel Celeste 2010
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She creates using a technique called lampworking and melts the glass with a torch before manipulating it with various tools until the desired result is achieved.
Luxist Rigel Celeste 2010
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Dichroic glass can be used in a number of ways from glassblowing (inflating molten glass into a bubble), bead-making (also know as lampworking - this uses a flame and glass rods … my next learning adventure!) and glass fusing (taking two or more pieces of glass and heating them together in a kiln).
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One of my hobbies is lampworking, and an old sock stuffed with lambswool and then covered in a fire-retardant sleeve works well for cushioning my elbows when I work!!
Turn Old Socks Into Foot Odour Killers | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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These are two of the eggs that I made in the same off-mandrel lampworking technique class.
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These are two of the eggs that I made in the same off-mandrel lampworking technique class.
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Oh, and if you ever decide to give up lampworking, you'd better run and hide after announcing it...there will be a huge glass mob coming to get you!
Fusing Glass in the Microwave Studio Marcy - Marcy Lamberson 2009
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