reticello

English

Etymology

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

Noun

reticello (countable and uncountable, 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.
2. (uncountable) Alternative form of reticella (“old lace-like fabric”)