Glossary:

Anneal: Allowing the glass to gradually cool from the inside out to prevent fractures.

Aventurine: Glass that contains copper flakes that give the appearance of gold.

Cane: Latticino and filigrana design glass that has been pulled out into a long rod.

Dichroic Glass: Specially coated glass used as decorative additions in art glass. After extensive cleaning, glass is placed in a heated vacuum chamber. In the chamber the surface of the glass is blasted with an electron beam gun, which coats the glass with different metallic oxides and rare metals to create different patterns and color effects. Two different types of base glass are used in the process. When used in the first or transparent state, both reflected and transmitted light frequencies are emitted. In the second phase a dichroic coating on a black background makes the surface color reflect. Unique colors are reflected and transmitted like teal or champagne, and the thin coatings of metals simulate precious metal qualities like those of copper, gold, platinum or silver on the dichroic surface.

Double Trouble: Starting with a single piece of filigrana cane, James suspends the cane in the center and swirls it up towards the top. Half way in to the swirl, the direction is been reversed.

Filigrana: Colored glass encased by clear glass which has been pulled into a piece of cane.

Fourplay: Design created by glass artist James Alloway that uses four centered pieces of James cane designs, dropping them from the top to the base. Primarily used in James marble creations.

Gaffers Revenge: Design created by glass artist James Alloway. A clear center is covered with nothing but different pieces of James various cane designs. The beauty of dichroic glass has been included in many of the different cane patterns, providing a beautiful glistening effect.

Glory Hole: A heated chamber to maintain glass temperature and reheat glass.

Iridize: Metallic surface coating for glass.

Latticino: Cane that gives the appearance of lattice.

Lattigrana: Design creation by glass artist James Alloway which is his interpretation of combining a filigrana design with a latticino design. Primarily used in James marble creations.

Millefiore: Cane that contains a floral motif.

Murrine: Cane that has been configured, stretched, heated, and cut in half to create an image.

PS Vortex: Design created by glass artist James Alloway. James creates his own various colored stringer, alternating the different colored pieces and swirling them from the center of the side to the base leaving the center open.

PS Vortex II: Same as “PS Vortex” except the base is closed instead of open.

Parallel Universe: Design created by glass artist James Alloway, incorporating a liner color and then swirling two adjacent pieces of stringer down from the top to the base of the piece parallel to each other.

Portland Dichrodelic: Design created by glass artist James Alloway. Starting with the “Stardust” design, James then incorporates his own creations of murrine, stringer, millefiori, latticino and filigrana. Most of the cane that James uses in this design also contains dichroic glass providing a glistening effect.

Portland Psychedelic: Design created by glass artist James Alloway that incorporates his own creations of shards, murrine, stringer, millefiori, latticino, and filigrana. Dichroic glass glistens throughout the many layers providing additional depth to the coloring effect.

Powder: Colored glass that has been pulverized into a fine powder.

Shards: Colored blown glass that has been broken into chunks and then added for additional coloring or decoration.

Split Personality: Design created by glass artist James Alloway. James uses his own cane creations, placing two pieces back to back in the center. Primarily used in James marble creations.

Stardust: Design created by glass artist James Alloway that starts with a base of colored powder which James covers with bands of glistening dichroic glass. The dichroic glass is swirled from the top to the base.

Stringer: Thin colored thread or string of glass.

Supernova: Design created by glass artist James Alloway. James incorporates his own creations of latticino, stringer and millefiore, swirling these pieces together with airtrap bubbles following along one side of the colored swirl. Dichroic glass glistens throughout the different levels of layering.

Supernova II: Same as “Supernova” except with both sides of center swirl having an airtrap bubble pattern.

Supernova III: Same as “Supernova” but without any airtrap bubbles

3 Way Divide: Design created by glass artist James Alloway that uses three pieces of James cane creations dropping from the top to the base. Primarily used in James marble creations.