Glass: A Pocket Dictionary Of Terms Commonly Used - Corning ...

Fancy glass: A term used to describe a very wide variety
of 19th-century European and American decorative
glass.
Favrile: A type of glass with an iridescent surface, patented
by louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933) in 1894.
Feathering: The process of dragging a tool across a series
of trails while they are semi-molten to impart a pattern
resembling feathers. See also Combed decoration.
Figural bottle: A molded bottle in the form of a head or
any of a variety of objects. The term is usually applied to
American glass of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Filigrana, vetro a filigrana (italian, “filigree glass”):
The generic name for blown glass made with colorless,
white, and sometimes colored canes. The filigrana style
originated on the island of Murano in the 16th century
and spread rapidly to other parts of Europe where façon
de Venise glass was produced. Manufacture on Murano
continued until the 18th century, and it was revived in
the 20th century. For the main types of filigrana, see
Vetro a fili, Vetro a reticello, and Vetro a retorti.
Finger bowl: A bowl to hold water for rinsing the fingers
at the table.
Finial: An ornamental knob.
Fining: The physical and chemical process of eliminating
bubbles from the melt by raising the temperature
to make the glass more fluid and adding fining agents
such as arsenic and antimony.
Finishing: The process of completing the forming or
decoration of an object. Finishing can take the form of
manipulating the object into its final shape while it is
hot, of cracking off before annealing, or of cutting,
enameling, grinding, or polishing.
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