latticinio glass

…threads for decorative purposes (latticinio). This form of decoration became progressively more complex; opaque threads were embedded in a matrix of clear glass and then twisted into cables, which were themselves used to build up the wall of a vessel. The height of complexity was reached when a bulb…

…classic Venetian techniques such as latticinio (threads of opaque glass embedded in clear glass). What largely distinguishes it from its Venetian counterparts, apart from less consummate technique, is the prevalence of such specifically Spanish vessel forms as the porrón, a spouted wine-drinking vessel; the cántara, a spouted water vessel; and…

…marble and other stones; and latticinio, in which rods of opaque, usually white, glass were incorporated in the body of the glass vessel and worked in patterns. Diamond-engraving was made possible in the 16th century by the improvements that had been made in the quality of the glass.