Sentence examples for glass thread from inspiring English sources

Bowls were often finished around the rim with a cordon made of a clear glass thread twisted with one of opaque white.

Decoration in this late period is mainly restricted to a few rough-cut lines, an occasional group of coloured glass blobs on the lamps, or a zigzag trail of glass thread running between the lip and the shoulder of a vase.

The trick was simply surrounding the glass thread with other glass that acted like a mirror, trapping the light inside.

"Glass Threads: Tiffany-Quezal-Imperial-Durand".

Its place was taken to some extent by the use of opaque white glass threads for decorative purposes (latticinio).

What it turned to was high-tech telecommunications, specifically fiber optics, the glass threads that are replacing copper telephone wires.

The vessels, made around sand cores, were mostly drinking cups or flasks for precious liquids and were often decorated with trailed patterns applied as glass threads.

The finest mosaics of antiquity were made of tesserae cut from glass threads or splinters of stone; ordinary floor decorations consisted of cubes about one centimetre square.

At the end of each arm are mirrors hanging by glass threads, isolated from the bumps and shrieks of the environment better than any Rolls-Royce ever conceived.

A single optical fiber is a bundle made up of thousands of individual glass threads, each of which carries a distinct stream of light.

WHEATON VILLAGE "Glass Threads: Tiffany-Quezal-Imperial-Durand," in the Museum of American Glass through Jan .2. "Terry Plasket: 25 Year Anniversary Exhibit," in the Gallery of Fine Craft through Friday.