Glass Tips from Verrier

Red pot metal glass is often undesirably dark in colour and very expensive. The method developed to produce red glass was called flashing. I...

Glass Types by manufacturing method There are several ways of categorising glass and this overview of glass types looks at the way the g...

Cut iridised glass on the back The idea seems to be to get a more even score and avoid chipping of the iridised surface. First, t...

Some recommend cutting flashed glass on the clear or non-flashed side. This is based on the idea that the flash is only laminated to the mai...

Once you have determined the flashed side on a sheet of glass, mark it with a felt tip or wax marker of some kind so that you will not have ...

On smaller pieces of flashed glass you can determine which the flashed or coloured side is by putting it to the light and viewing it throug...