Louis Comfort Tiffany derived the name of his patented Favrile glass from “fabrile,” an Old English or Old French word meaning “handcrafted.” Workmen at his Long Island furnaces in Corona mixed different colors of melted glass together before blowing the molten “gather” (hot glass on the tip of a blowpipe) into various forms. Tiffany described his Favrile glass as “usually iridescent like the wings of certain American butterflies, the necks of pigeons and peacocks, the wing covers of various beetles.” Flowers were of special importance to Tiffany, whether cultivated in his lush gardens or imagined in shimmering glass