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Glossary of Paperweight Terms
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Saliva   Unwanted string of air bubbles from insufficient expulsion of air during assembly.
 
Sand ground   See rock ground
 
Scattered millefiori   A somewhat irregular spaced concentric millefiori pattern.
 
Scrambled millefiori (or end-of-day)   A millefiori paperweight design in which whole and broken canes and sometimes white or colored lace are jumbled together to fill the weight.
 
Servitor   An attendant or helper.
 
Setup John Parsley
 
Used interchangeably with "motif" to denote the central elements in a representational weight.
 
Shears   A scissors-like instrument used to cut malleable glass.
 
Shot glass   See penholder
 
Signature cane (or initial cane) John Parsley
 
A millefiori cane indicating the name or initial(s) of the weight's factory of origin or the artist who created it.
 
Silhouette cane Baccarat
 
A millefiori cane that reveals the shape of an animal, flower, or figure when cut in cross section.
 
Single overlay   See overlay
 
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Glossary text from The Art of the Paperweight used courtesy of L. H. Selman Ltd.

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