Blown plate glass
Blown plate is a hand-blown glass. There is a record of blown plate being produced in London in 1620.
Production
Blown plate was made by hand-grinding broad sheet glass. As the process was labour-intensive, and expensive, blown plate was mainly used for carriages and mirrors rather than in windows for buildings.[1] Other methods for making hand-blown glass included: broad sheet, crown glass, polished plate and cylinder blown sheet. These methods of manufacture lasted at least until the end of the 19th century. The early 20th century marked the move away from hand-blown to machine manufactured glass such as rolled plate, machine drawn cylinder sheet, flat drawn sheet, single and twin ground polished plate and float glass.[2]
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techniques
- Float glass process
- Fritted glass
- Blowing and pressing (containers)
- Extrusion / Drawing (glass fibers)
- Glass wool
- Drawing (optical fibers)
- Precision glass moulding
- Overflow downdraw method
- Pressing
- Casting
- Flame polishing
- Chemical polishing
- Diamond turning
- Rolling
historic techniques
- Āina-kāri
- Art glass
- Glass art
- Beadmaking
- Blowing
- Blown plate
- Broad sheet
- Caneworking
- Cased glass
- Crown glass
- Cut glass
- Cylinder blown sheet
- Engraving
- Etching
- Enamelled glass
- Flashed glass
- Forest glass
- Fourcault process
- Fusing
- Glass mosaic
- Glassware
- Lampworking
- Machine drawn cylinder sheet
- Millefiori
- Mirror
- Polished plate
- Porous glass
- Rippled glass
- Satsuma Kiriko cut glass
- Slumping
- Stained glass
- Studio glass
- Tempered glass
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