Related file: Types of Cutting
Introduction
Check List of Motifs Used in American Cut Glass
Discussion of Selected Cut-Glass Motifs
- Diamonds
- Hobnails, Triangles, and Pyramidal Triangles
- Hobstars and Brunswick Stars
- The Cane Family of Motifs
- The Hexad and Kohinoor Motifs
- Pinwheels
- Stars
- Miters and Prisms; Blaze and Silver Threads
- Notching and Beading
- Bullseyes
- Flutes and Pillar Flutes
- The Russian and Persian Motifs/Patterns
The above image is a detail from the Orient pattern by Krantz, Smith and Company, c1900. One straight and two curved miter cuts outline a gothic-window effect that contains a 24-pt hobstar with a 16-pt Brunswick star on its hobnail and three 11-ribbed fans. Additional Brunswick stars, small hobstars, and strawberry (fine) diamonds complete the inventory of this image's motifs (Image: Internet).
Updated 15 Jul 2007