Glass shaped by heating it over a small flame. The technique is used to make small figures and ornaments .
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Is also called torchwork, are pieces formed from glass canes and tubes that are shaped by hand over a flame. Oil lamps and bellows were originally used, hence the name lampworking. Lampworked glass beads are made in a wide variety of colors, shapes, and designs, including millefiori. Lampworking was invented in the 1700's in Murano, Italy.
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Glass shaped by heating it over a small flame. The technique is used to make small figures and ornaments.
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Articles formed out of thin rods or canes over a small burner, usually small ornaments (also miniature flowers, insects etc for inclusion in paperweights)
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