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This graphic illustrates the crimping process by which crimped flowers such as the Millville roses were made. A crimp is a brass form, here in the shape of a rose. It is pre-heated and thrust into a molten gather of glass. The petal shapes on the crimp push the colored glass upward into petal shapes within the clear glass dome.

Graohic by Sue Huitt, Illinois State Museum

This graphic illustrates the crimping process by which crimped flowers such as the Millville roses were made. A crimp is a brass form, here in the shape of a rose. It is pre-heated and thrust into a molten gather of glass. The petal shapes on the crimp push the colored glass upward into petal shapes within the clear glass dome.
     
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