reticello

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian reticello, a masculine diminutive of rete (“net”).

Noun

reticello (plural reticelli)

  1. A decorative glassblowing technique involving the merging of two cane bubbles (one inside the other) where the straight canes were twisted in opposite directions, resulting in a net-like pattern.
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