Texture

A very common question we get is 'What happens to a textured glass when you fuse it?'.
Of course if you take the glass to a temperature high enough to melt, then whatever texture was on the surface would just melt out as well. Picture a chocolate bar with its embossed surface out on the sidewalk in the mid-day summer sun. It ends up as a rather obscene looking thing (sorry for that image that will now haunt you the rest of the day... Zenia). 
So why even have textures you wonder?
Well, as in this plate below, we filled the crevices in the Spectrum Cord texture with powders to create those interesting lines when fused flat-

Another thing you might consider is fusing a textured glass with the texture down. This way the glass will still fuse flat removing any surface texture, but the texture 'memory' will remain. 

This picture shows the politically incorrect and ugly mold that Slumpy inadvertently shipped to us and then were nice enough to not charge us for it. The glass is a Spectrum Opalart with a Clear Cord for a cap-

After fusing we see that the texture is smooth but the memory of the Cord remains. We also see that as the Opalart also has some surface texture we get some interesting bubble patterns-