Murrine VS Millefiori

[Jayadeva]

Are they interchange able? I see so many people call what I assume to be murrine, "millie." From what I understand millefiori was with optic molds and more of a hot shop thing and I have never actually seen it done in boro. I've seen plenty of clusters but no flower ones.

[mer]

millefiore literally translates into 1,000 flowers. one of the individual flower (or other image) canes was originally called a murrine and soft glass people would spread them out over a surface and then roll a piece over them, picking up "thousands" of little flower images. murrine is still the proper term for a cane with a single image (flower or otherwise) but you often have to say mille for people in our scene to understand what you are talking about. still, i suggest saying murrine, it's not good to coddle the uneducated.

i think it is a funny joke to make (or buy on the cheap from momka) a bunch of flower murrine and stack it into a tube to make one pull with many flowers. i believe this would be a millefiore inspired murrine which would be quite backwards to the original evolution. i am forever making what i think are funny jokes that nobody finds entertaining though.

[Jayadeva]

Well you can't say no one anymore because I found it entertaining. I am curious where it all went wrong. How old Italian terms are brought back to be butchered and miss used. Encalmo.

[Deez]

whats an inclamo?

[mer]

in my town thousands of pipemakers learn from thousands of other pipemakers in backyard sheds and garages. it is not an academically rigorous environment. you'll hear; kilm, dychrillic, dididium and raticello used in the common vernacular. it is the result of an end of the industry that raised itself mostly without the mentorship of past generations.

[daveabr]

oh my, you wouldn't believe the stuff we here from time to time.



"hey mang, ya'll gots any of dat dicronic glass"


"Ya'll carry simanax tubin?"


we def here dididium all the time. dichrillic as well. boronic glass is one of my favs:D


it's like anything though. it's like i tell new employees with no glass background. learning the lingo of this industry is like a foreign language sometimes. just saying the word marver to someone can be confusing.

[Aymie]

I want a double blown dichrillic kilm tempered pipe...who is up for that order brah? But I don't need to borrow your dididiums, I have sunglasses.

[derekg0]

I didn't know ABR had the dichronic, you guys are gonna be rich! lol, glass terms can be funny, and I can definitely see how folks learning in a non-classroom environment can pick up incorrect terms easily and then teach all their friends. Mer had me laughing, i think we need to put in all the misspoken terms in here to have a good laugh.

[Slow]

Pfft... double blown glass is so 1900's. Triple blown is where it's at now, 'cuz it's clearly one better than double blown... But it costs more, 'cuz I gotta blow it that extra time.

[Chewie]

Damn Dave, I still call it dididium haha, how do you pronounce that one?

[Kool]

epic bump, yo

[MrSmeeth]

I make Murrini, Murrine, or milli. they come in. chips, cane, coins and slabs. Millifiori is for the little hot shop stuff and mass produced Italian and Chinese trinkety glass. Most collectors like Murrini.