What is another word for glasswork?

Pronunciation: [ɡlˈaswɜːk] (IPA)

Glasswork refers to the art of creating objects from glass using various techniques like blowing, etching, or cutting. Synonyms for glasswork include glass art, glassware, glass craft, glass sculpture, glassmaking, glass design, and glassblowing. Glass art, being a broader term, encompasses all kinds of artwork made using glass and may include various techniques like stained glass, fused glass, mosaics, and others. Glassware, on the other hand, focuses on functional objects like glasses, vases, or bowls, made from glass. Glasscraft refers to creating objects using glass as the primary medium and employing advanced skills like cutting, grinding, and polishing. Glass sculpture refers to creating sculptural objects using glass as the raw material.

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What are the hypernyms for Glasswork?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Glasswork

A statue stands on every pinnacle; each pillar has a different design; round some of them are woven wreaths of vine and ivy; acanthus leaves curl over the capitals, making nests for singing birds or Cupids; the doorways are a labyrinth of intricate designs, in which the utmost elegance of form is made more beautiful by incrustations of precious agates and Alexandrine glasswork.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III."
John Symonds
Italy was famous for its glasswork.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly
Vanished are the transparent rainbow colours, perished those saintly personages, in the pretty simplicity of their attitudes, with their small, pale, ecstatic faces; a thousand precious fragments of that glasswork, which in the course of centuries has acquired an iridescence something in the manner of opals, lie on the ground, where indeed they still shine like gems.
"War"
Pierre Loti

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