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  • verb Present participle of marver.

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  • Participants will receive hands-on instruction of techniques such as marvering, blocking and shaping as well as using a blowpipe, punties, jacks, tweezers and shears.

    WSAW - HomePage - Headlines 2009

  • Use a sharper angle marvering it, if you want a more pointed cap.

    Mini Tutorial- Making Mushrooms by Marcy Lamberson Studio Marcy - Marcy Lamberson 2009

  • I would try marvering or poking with it... fascinating!

    What's Up With This Tool? Post & Win a Prize Studio Marcy - Marcy Lamberson 2008

  • Beginning courses teach students how to make simple blown vessels, develop fundamental skills such as gathering, marvering, and puntying, use the Venetian style of glassblowing, construct solid sculptures with lamp working, and make beads.

    You’re Certifiable Joel Naftali Lee 1999

  • Beginning courses teach students how to make simple blown vessels, develop fundamental skills such as gathering, marvering, and puntying, use the Venetian style of glassblowing, construct solid sculptures with lamp working, and make beads.

    You’re Certifiable Joel Naftali Lee 1999

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  • In glassmaking, rolling glass on a smooth, flat surface (marver, from the French marbre, "marble") while it's attached to a blowpipe or pontil, to smooth it or to consolidate applied decoration.

    November 9, 2007