Administrator wrote:
 
> Taft Kiser wrote:
>
> > To Sharon Melendez:
> > Re: color chart for glass
> >
> > As you probably know, the Munsell color chart we use is an abbreviation
> > of a larger chart that theoretically, covers everything. ...SNIPS HAPPEN
>
> > ...However, with glass you've got a fairly homogeneous metal so it might
> > work. But I would save the job for people you'd like to get rid of.
> >
>
>  Sharon, you might also consider using pantone colors. You can buy the
> pantone charts from most art supply stores and many computer graphic-arts
> programs have them. I suppose you could even use them on your screen by
> holding pieces up next to your monitor (but over a piece of opaque white
> paper).
>
> My question is about the layer of glass itself. What is it? I have
> encountered thick layers of glass in two contexts...both from the 18th c.
> One was a layer laid under the floor of one room in the cellar of a
> plantation house. My guess is that the room was used for food storage and
> that the glass was a way of deterring infiltration by mice. The other case
> was the use of large amounts of both bottle glass and broken pottery to
> "crock" the bottom of kitchen-garden beds at the same plantation. here the
> cockery and glass layer would not only deter rodents, but would provide
> drainage and root aeration. Do you know why your layer of glass was there?
>
> --
> Dan Mouer
> Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology
> Virginia Commonwealth University
> http://saturn.vcu.edu/~dmouer/homepage.htm