Glassmaking terms
Glass workers have their own jargon to describe the various steps of their work and the tools they use to model the glass.
These terms were born with the glass tradition and was handed on from father to son. Nowadays, many of these terms have been forgotten but most of them are still used in the furnace.
BÒLO: A Murano word referring to the first lump of molten glass, just after its removal from the melting pot, before work on it begins. “Pastone” PARESON and LEVADA have a similar meaning.
