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Title: Frosting? Belgian? Dentelle?! A question that we need to start again
Post by: Jay on October 20, 2008, 09:12:54 AM

In a previous thread we discussed the bowl below and concluded that it was probably from Boom!

This made me very happy....until I tried to get in confirmed and discovered that it is NOT from Boom! (according to information from ex-employees)

Can I ask european collectors to look again at the texture effect and see if it could be associated with another factory.

The technique is definitely 'identical' to the dentelle finish we can see on other Boom items, but it seems somebody else was using this particular technique.
Is this another 'trade secret' that migrating workers carried to Sklo and back?
Was there another Belgian factory who copied the technique?

Title: Re: Frosting? Belgian? Dentelle?! A question that we need to start again
Post by: Ivo on October 20, 2008, 09:24:25 AM

it is not one of the great secrets of glass manufacture:

http://www.glassmart.com/gluechip.html

Title: Re: Frosting? Belgian? Dentelle?! A question that we need to start again
Post by: Jay on October 20, 2008, 09:49:49 AM

I see. Did they have internet at Sklo??

Did you notice my inverted commas around the words 'trade secret'??

Title: Re: Frosting? Belgian? Dentelle?! A question that we need to start again
Post by: Pinkspoons on October 20, 2008, 10:09:20 AM

Glue-chipping has been around for a long time, and is fairly international - I've a silver-mounted English decanter from the 1880s that uses this technique, and I know that Jacob Bang used it at Holmegaard during the 1930s.

Title: Re: Frosting? Belgian? Dentelle?! A question that we need to start again
Post by: Jay on October 20, 2008, 10:27:02 AM

Thanks Nic, that places it in context then.
I guess the technique doesn't say very much if it comes from beyond benelux then.  :(

I'll have to hope that somebody recognises the other elements of the design!

Title: Re: Frosting? Belgian? Dentelle?! A question that we need to start again
Post by: Ivo on October 20, 2008, 10:29:29 AM

http://www.handletteringforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=300&highlight=gluechip