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Glossary of Paperweight Terms
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Lace (also called filigree, gauze, muslin, upset muslin) Parabelle
 
White or colored glass threads spiraled around a clear rod; used in short segments to form a paperweight ground.
 
Lamp   See blowtorch
 
Lampwork
 
 
 
Randall Grubb
 
v. The manipulation of glass with a gas burner or torch; also the process of creating representational paperweight subjects.
 
n. Paperweight inclusions, such as flowers, insects and reptiles that are created petal by petal, leaf by leaf, stripe by stripe and spot by spot, at a small gas burner or torch, prior to being encased in glass.
 
Latticinio   A lacy backdrop created from white and clear glass. Lace is uniformly chaotic, whereas latticinio is a basketweave pattern.
 
Lattimo   Opaque, white milk glass.
 
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Glossary text from The Art of the Paperweight used courtesy of L. H. Selman Ltd.

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