
Flashed glass,
or flash glass, is a type of
glass
Glass is a non-Crystallinity, crystalline, often transparency and translucency, transparent, amorphous solid that has widespread practical, technological, and decorative use in, for example, window panes, tableware, and optics. Glass is most ...
created by coating a colorless gather of glass with one
or more thin layers of colored glass. This is done by placing a piece of melted glass of one color into another piece of melted glass of a different color and then
blowing the glass.
As well as its use for glass vessels, it has been very widely used in making
stained glass since medieval times, often in combination with "
pot metal glass", made by colouring molten glass, giving colour all through the sheet.
The colored glass can be partly or completely
etched away (through exposure to
acid or via
sandblasting), resulting in colorless spots where the colored glass has been removed.
Flashed glass can be made from various colors of glass.
A finished piece of flashed glass appears
translucent
In the field of optics, transparency (also called pellucidity or diaphaneity) is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material without appreciable scattering of light. On a macroscopic scale (one in which the dimensions ...
.
See also
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Cased glass
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Glass engraving
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Satsuma Kiriko cut glass
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Stained glass
References
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