Latticino
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An archaic Italian term for describing vetro a filigrana. It is a lacy looking glass of embedded opaque white rods that form that pattern. | An archaic Italian term for describing vetro a filigrana. It is a lacy looking glass of embedded opaque white rods that form that pattern. | ||
Glassware made by embedding a vessel of clear glass with threads, or canes, of opaque--usually white--glass so as to form patterns of vertical stripes or spirals on the sides of the vessel. When the threads formed a netlike pattern with an air bubble in each free space between the threads, it was called netzglas, or net glass. A specialty of Venice in the 16th century. | Glassware made by embedding a vessel of clear glass with threads, or canes, of opaque--usually white--glass so as to form patterns of vertical stripes or spirals on the sides of the vessel. When the threads formed a netlike pattern with an air bubble in each free space between the threads, it was called netzglas, or net glass. A specialty of Venice in the 16th century. | ||
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Latticino:
Also known as latticinio. See Zanfirico. A basket weave pattern; or lace a uniformly chaotic pattern.. An archaic Italian term for describing vetro a filigrana. It is a lacy looking glass of embedded opaque white rods that form that pattern. Glassware made by embedding a vessel of clear glass with threads, or canes, of opaque--usually white--glass so as to form patterns of vertical stripes or spirals on the sides of the vessel. When the threads formed a netlike pattern with an air bubble in each free space between the threads, it was called netzglas, or net glass. A specialty of Venice in the 16th century.
