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

Tiefschnitt (German, “deep cut”): See Intaglio.
Toddy plate: A popular term for a small pressed glass
plate, made between about 1830 and 1870, presumably
as a saucer under a toddy glass. Toddy is a beverage
composed of whiskey or another liquor, hot water, and
sugar.
Toilet bottle: A bottle for perfume or toilet water. Ancient
roman toilet bottles are frequently known as
unguentaria.
Tool: Any instrument used by glassworkers to develop
and shape an object. Glassworkers’ tools include the
blowpipe, pontil, gathering iron, jacks, shears, clapper,
pallet, block, pincers, battledore, lipper, and crimper.
Tooling: The result of using a tool or tools.
Trail: A strand of glass, roughly circular in section, drawn
out from a gather.
Trailing: The process of applying trails of glass as decoration
on the body, handle, or foot of a vessel. it is done
by laying or winding softened threads on a glass object
during manufacture. See also Combed decoration.
Trick glass:
A glass, usually
for wine and
often of extraor-
dinary shape,
designed to be as
difficult as possible
to drink from without
spilling the contents.
Trick glass. Spain, early 17th
century. H. 21.9 cm.
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