Talk:Satin glass

Looks interesting stuff129.32.176.29 22:18, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Different types of satin glass?

This article appears to center on an established type of collectible objects generally known as "satin glass", whose surface has been made translucent/opaque by etching it with HF. But in costume jewelry, there's a completely different type of satin glass that has a glossy surface lustre and an internal structure of fine, parallel lines or layers that reflect light; however, I don't have any info about its manufacture besides unreliable collectors' lore that it involves somehow "combing" air through the glass (I have no real idea). Is this worth a mention within the article? which mainly occurs to me because I was recently looking at "satin glass beads" of the latter type, whereas glass beads whose overall texture has been created by HF-etching are called something else instead (usually "matte", or sometimes "ghost" in combination with an iridescent aurora-borealis effect). Wombat1138 (talk) 12:35, 1 February 2009 (UTC)