Colors will vary in hand made glass.
Because of the nature of the manufacturing process and that it is hand made, minute changes in raw pigment, glass material, oven and ambient temperature can all affect the final result. Glass produced in the morning could be a shade different from one made the same afternoon. Color can vary even more when production runs are weeks apart.
Of course, Strini Art Glass, controls the basic color and attempts to match the best we can. We have worked with all colors extensively and agreed on a acceptable range of shades for each basic color. All colored glass provided by Strini Art Glass has been inspected and found to be within our color limits.
Please accept this with our best intentions of supplying you with a distinguished hand blown, museum quality piece of blown, fused and or slumped art glass, signed by Rick Strini.
Luster Glass
In the late 1920s, when Tiffany & Co. decided to discontinue their line of art glass and Steuben Glass was sold to Corning Glass, the ability to make prized, luminous, hand-blown Luster Glass was lost. The process had been so secretive and segmented that no one person knew how to do everything to make a finished lustrous piece, except for Fredrick Carder.
Opaque Glass
The popularity of Opaque glass began during the reign of Napoleon.
Glass that is opaque or slightly translucent, and can appear either white or brightly colored in shades of green, blue, pink, black, lavender and yellow.