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when the piece has cooled, further application such as grinding and
polishing (to remove the punty mark, for example), or sandblasting
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colours
(in-furnace colour) available are clear, green, blue, champagne pink
and amber, and quite a few transition colours occur - like a blue
green, pale green, purple or pale blue.
Casting of the dalles for the
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de verre section takes place here, and custom sandcasts of faces,
motif panels and other special pieces are also possible. Also made
here is the some of the flat glass for the stained glass studio -
in a large mangle type affair, which squeezes a gob of molten glass
into a sheet. Advanced decorative techniques are also available -
murrine, cane work and others are part of the wide repertoire of these
skilled artisans.
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