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Color: Color Technology

This guide provides basic sources to understand the techniques of coloring glass

Colored Glasses

Technical sources

Articles

“Color in glass.” Glass Art, v. 1, no. 3, June 1973, pp. 12-20. Note: Reprinted from Scholes, Modern Glass Practice. Location: Periodicals NK5110.G525

Conrad, John W. “Glass colorants.” Glass Art, v. 2, no. 4, August 1974, pp. 17-18. Location: Periodicals NK5110.G525

“Foster, Robin J. Romance with Color: Making Your Own Custom Colors.” Glass Line, v. 25, no. 2 (Aug./Sept. 2011), pp. 44-46, ill. Topics include preparation; tips, tricks, and things to avoid; soft glass recipes; and additional resources. Flameworking. <Periodicals PER TP859.G55>

Gaiduk, A. P.; E. V. Ukhina and N. A. Kiselevich. “Using rare earth oxides as colorants and decolorizers for glass.” Glass and Ceramics, v. 38, no. 7, July, 1981, pp. 373-375. Translated from: Steklo i Keramika, no. 7, pp. 28–29, July, 1981. Information from Borisovsk F. É. Dzerzhinskii Glass Factory, USSR. Springer link: http://www.springerlink.com/content/u8819852k51525w1/ 

The glass-making oxides.” Glass Art, v. 1, no. 2, April 1973, p. 14-21. Reprinted from Scholes’ Modern Glass Practice. Location: Periodicals NK5110.G525

“Kohl, Jesse. The Chemistry of Silver Containing Glasses.” The Glass Art Society Journal, (2009), pp. 62-63, ill. Note: The basics of color generation, discussion of glassmakers Angelo Barovier and John Burton, and some of the latest research results. Periodicals PER NK5110.J86

Manners, Paul. “Custom-made to fit.” Glass Art, v. p. 10-18. Includes compatibility, raw materials, refining, coloring and opacifying agents

VanderLaan, Pete. “Some simple coloring notes.” GAS News, June-August 2003, pp. 5. Location: Periodicals NK5110.G23

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