I005Attributed
Blue and orange five-petal flower
Fire Fox Glass
11.6 g
Five-petal flower in blue and orange on a pale ground. A classic motif cane.
Cane pieces · Chips · Slices & coins
Murrini
& Millie
Catalog
Picked, not stocked.
79canes
45image
20millefiori
14Pokémon
63slices & coins
801 gcane pieces
Ask for anything here by its ID — I018, S59 — on the Whatnot show or at nicepieceglass.com. Edition 01 · November 2026.
01
What is murrini
Murrini is a picture made of glass that runs all the way through a rod. Cut the rod anywhere and the same picture is on the face of every piece.
The Italian word is murrina (plural murrine); the American boro scene says murrini or just image cane. The idea is ancient — Roman glassmakers were doing it two thousand years ago, and Murano turned it into an industry — but the modern borosilicate version is its own animal: pulled hard, tight and small enough to encase in the wall of a pipe, the face of a marble or the cap of a rig.
A millefiori cane (“a thousand flowers”) is the pattern-based cousin: instead of a picture, the bundle is built from repeating rods so that the face reads as a flower, a honeycomb, a pinwheel or a checkerboard. Pack a bunch of millefiori together and you get the classic Venetian paperweight look. Pack image cane together and you get a comic strip.
Glossary
- Cane
- Any pulled rod of glass carrying color, pattern or an image through its length.
- Murrini / image cane
- Cane whose cross-section is a single picture — a face, a logo, a character.
- Millie / millefiori
- Cane whose cross-section is a repeating pattern built from bundled rods.
- Pull
- One heating-and-stretching of a bundle. Also what makers call a release (“Pull 305”).
- Slice / coin
- A cross-section cut off a cane and cold-polished so the image sits under a clean, flat face.
- Chip
- Thin cuts, partial cuts and off-cuts from the same cane, sold by weight.
- COE 33
- The expansion coefficient of borosilicate. Every cane here is boro and will play with boro.
02
The process
From a drawing to a coin-sized picture that will never fade, smear or peel — because it isn’t on the glass, it is the glass.
1
Design
The image is reduced to flat color fields with a bold outline. Anything that won’t survive being shrunk tenfold gets cut.
2
Build the bundle
The picture is assembled large from colored rods, pressed sheets and pre-pulled sub-canes, each color laid in like a mosaic. Black outline rod holds the drawing.
3
Encase & heat-soak
Wrapped in clear, attached to punties at both ends, brought up to working heat evenly. Cold spots mean a distorted pull.
4
Pull
Two people walk apart, drawing the molten bundle down to a rod. The image shrinks in proportion but keeps every detail.
5
Anneal & cut
Annealed to relieve stress, then cut into lengths. That’s the cane pieces in this catalog: sold by weight, picture on the end.
6
Slice & cold work
Or the cane goes to the cold shop: sawn into discs, lapped flat and polished so the picture sits under optical glass like a coin.
03
The cane, by artist
Each maker gets a profile and their canes with a note on where the image comes from. Verified design matched to the maker’s own listing · Probable strong lead · Attributed recorded at intake · Unattributed maker open.
Maker
Fire Fox Glass
firefoxglass.com · @firefoxglass
Numbered pulls, pop culture, zero filter
Fire Fox Glass runs one of the most prolific image-cane shops in the borosilicate world, releasing work as a numbered “Pull” series that now runs into the hundreds. The catalog is unmistakable: Pokémon and anime, internet memes, UV-reactive eyes, cannabis motifs and a thick streak of adult humor that most pullers won’t touch. Fire Fox also collaborates constantly — several canes in this collection are three-way pulls with Brien9fingers and Jeff Glass Art, and one with Whimsy Glass Works. Canes are sold by weight, five grams minimum, which is exactly how this collection was assembled.
29canes
224 gon the table
Maker
Ryan McCluer
Stocked by Mille Mafia · millemafia.com
Cartoon faithful, clean line, big faces
Ryan McCluer pulls the kind of image cane that makes people stop at a table: Saturday-morning cartoon characters, movie sidekicks, band logos and cryptids rendered with clean outlines and confident color blocking. His work is carried by Mille Mafia, the main retail hub for American image cane, often alongside collaborations with Michael McCluer. Pinky and the Brain, Smokey Bear and the psychedelic Bigfoot in this collection are all his — along with the UV honeycomb and the amber honeycomb pattern canes that anchor the millefiori section.
18canes
238 gon the table
Maker
Dave Strobel
Stocked by Mille Mafia · millemafia.com
Simpsons, South Park, stealies and villains
Dave Strobel is a cane puller’s cane puller. His catalog on Mille Mafia leans hard into animated television — Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, Looney Tunes — plus a long-running series of Grateful Dead “stealie” variants. He pulls at a level of detail that survives being drawn down to a few millimeters, which is why his Joker and Quagmire read instantly even at coin size. The 54-gram matched pair of veined cannabis-leaf canes in this collection is the largest single lot in the catalog.
7canes
107 gon the table
Maker
Cupcake Berry / Gloria Glass
Attribution recorded at intake
Traditional millefiori, seventeen patterns
The seventeen millefiori pattern canes attributed to Cupcake Berry / Gloria Glass are the traditional heart of this catalog — radial flowers, pinwheels, checkerboards, sunbursts and mosaics built the old way, by stacking and bundling colored rods and pulling them down until the pattern locks. These are the canes that give “millefiori” its name: a thousand flowers. She pulled every pattern cane in this catalog except the UV honeycomb and the starburst. Pictured: the bundle as it came to us, end-on.
18canes
182 gon the table
Maker
Joshua Indermuehle
Attribution recorded at intake
Logo work in bold color
Two logo canes in this collection — the red-bordered Hatchet Man and the Mortal Kombat dragon — are attributed to Joshua Indermuehle. Both are clean, high-contrast emblem pulls that hold their edges well at slice size. Full maker profile pending.
2canes
12 gon the table
Maker
Fire Fox Glass x Brien9fingers x Jeff Glass Art
Three-way collaboration pulls
Collab series
A run of collaborative canes pulled by Fire Fox Glass with Brien9fingers and Jeff Glass Art (Jeff Patterson, @jeff.glassart). The Fire Fox listings credit all three makers by name. This collection holds two: the clear five-lobed cannabis leaf and the “peace was never an option” goose.
2canes
16 gon the table
Maker
Fire Fox Glass x Whimsy Glass Works
Collaboration pull
Collab series
Whimsy Glass Works is Whitney DeStasio (@whimsyglassworks). Her collaboration with Fire Fox Glass produced the Biblically Accurate Furby — a Furby reimagined as a many-eyed, many-winged angel — and this collection holds the cane.
1canes
9 gon the table
Maker
Unknown
Maker not yet identified
Open attribution
Two canes in the collection have not yet been matched to a maker. They are catalogued, weighed and photographed, and are offered as unattributed. If you pulled one of these, tell us and we will correct the record.
2canes
14 gon the table
04
The cane, by theme
The same canes, regrouped the way buyers actually ask for them.
Pokémon
Gotta pull them all. The full set, kept together.
14Cartoon Television
Animaniacs, Family Guy, Futurama, The Powerpuff Girls, Looney Tunes.
6Film
Movie faces, from Pixar to slashers.
5Video Games
Crash, Mario, Mortal Kombat, Minecraft, Among Us.
5Grateful Dead
Stealies and bears. More coming with the slices.
1Music
Band logos and label emblems.
3Cannabis
Leaves, mushrooms and the culture around them.
4UV Reactive
Hit them with a 365nm light.
5Creatures & Cryptids
Bigfoot, Yeti, goose, Frenchie, one rude cat.
6Hearts & Love
Soft subjects, hard glass.
4After Dark
Adult humor and the occult. Not for the kids’ table.
4Americana
Smokey, Trump and a rainbow.
4Motifs & Symbols
Eyes, flowers, stars.
3Millefiori Patterns
The thousand-flower canes.
2005
Chips
Thin cuts, partial cuts and off-cuts from the same pulls, sorted by theme and sold by weight. Same glass, same makers, a fraction of the price per picture — made for implosions, stringer work, encasement and anyone who wants a bag of Pikachus.
Coming soon
Chips will ship bagged by theme — Pokémon, Simpsons, Grateful Dead, cannabis, millefiori — with the source canes and makers listed on the bag.
06
Slices & coins
Cane cut into coins and cold-polished to an optical face — the extra hand that makes a slice cost more than a chip. Everything here was cold-worked by Josh Rose. Cane makers are being identified slice by slice; pricing is coming soon.
How a slice is cold-worked
- Saw. Sectioned on a water-cooled diamond saw at roughly 2–4 mm.
- Flat lap. Each face ground flat on a diamond lap, starting around 80–120 grit, until both faces are parallel.
- Grit progression. 220 → 400 → 600 → 1200, each stage removing the last one’s scratches. Skip a stage and the polish never gets there.
- Pre-polish. 3000-grit or a resin pad brings a satin haze.
- Polish. Cerium oxide on felt brings the face to full optical clarity.
- Clean & inspect. Ultrasonic clean, then inspection under light for scratches, pits and cracks.
07
Worked pieces & paperweights
Where the cane ends up. Pipes and marbles with millies cut and set into the glass, plus the reference collection — paperweights, Millie 40 and Perthshire close-packs — photographed for Edition 02.
08
Maker index
| Maker | Canes | Weight | IDs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fire Fox Glass | 29 | 224.2 g | I005, I016, I020, I026, I027, I029, I032, I034, I036, I037, I038, I039, I040, I041, I044, I046, P001, P003, P004, P005, P006, P007, P008, P009, P010, P011, P012, P013, P014 |
| Cupcake Berry / Gloria Glass | 18 | 182.4 g | M002, M003, M004, M005, M007, M008, M009, M010, M011, M012, M013, M014, M015, M016, M017, M018, M019, M020 |
| Ryan McCluer | 18 | 237.5 g | I002, I003, I007, I009, I012, I015, I017, I021, I022, I023, I024, I025, I035, I042, I043, M001, M006, P002 |
| Dave Strobel | 7 | 107.4 g | I004, I010, I011, I014, I018, I031, I045 |
| Fire Fox Glass x Brien9fingers x Jeff Glass Art | 2 | 15.5 g | I013, I030 |
| Joshua Indermuehle | 2 | 11.5 g | I028, I033 |
| Fire Fox Glass x Whimsy Glass Works | 1 | 8.7 g | I008 |
| Unknown | 2 | 13.9 g | I001, I019 |
Slice & coin cane makers
| Maker | Slices | IDs |
|---|---|---|
| Christopher Campbell | 2 | S23, S27 |
| ABR Imagery · SKU M324 | 1 | S06 |
| Ben Birney | 1 | S46 |
| Dave Strobel | 1 | S59 |
| Jerry Kelly | 1 | S20 |
| Jesse Taj Karolczuk | 1 | S50 |
| Malachi Wilkinson | 1 | S10 |
| Precision Pulls | 1 | S18 |
| Ryan McCluer | 1 | S62 |
| Stephen Boehme | 1 | S47 |
| To be confirmed | 57 | S01, S02, S03, S04, S05, S07, S08, S09, S11, S12, S13, S14, S15, S16, S17, S19, S21, S22, S24, S25, S26, S28, S29, S30, S31, S32, S33, S34, S35, S36, S37, S38, S39, S40, S41, S42, S43, S44, S45, S48, S49, S51, S52, S53, S54, S55, S56, S57, S58, S60, S61, S63, W01, W02, W03, W04, W05 |
How attribution works
Verified means the cane design matches a listing in the maker’s own public catalog — a design attribution, not a chain of ownership. Probable means a strong lead. Attributed means the maker was recorded at intake and not yet matched to a listing. Unattributed means we don’t know yet.
The fine print
All glass is COE 33 borosilicate unless noted. Weights are of the cane pieces on hand at time of indexing; pairs show the pair total. Character and logo canes are artist tributes; no affiliation with any rights holder is implied. Corrections welcome — if you pulled one of these and we have it wrong, tell us and we’ll fix the record.