With the oven ablaze melting shattered glass in the workshop and the nearby store abuzz with curious customers, it is hard to imagine that just a few months ago Lebanon’s last glass blower was about to close shop for good. On a ...
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Professionals from the cannabis and artistic glass industries are set to gather in the City of Lights next month for one of the most recognizable trade shows the market has to offer. Since it’s inception in 2009, the American Glass ...
From a molten blob of glass to a meticulously crafted masterpiece, the works of art at Wheatonarts round into shape a little bit at a time. A day after working to create some of the world's largest Christmas ornaments, Deborah Czeresko ...
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Soda lime glass is basically colorless. Metals and oxides can be added to glass to change its color during the glass blowing, molding or machine production process. The following additives make the distinctive colors: •Red glass: ...
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There's a delicate dance that happens every day at the Orbix Hot Glass studio. It combines fire, human breath, constant spinning and occasional shaping to turn molten glass into colorful sculptures, pitchers, bowls, vases and other ...
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The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery has announced winners of the 2013 Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics and RBC Award for Glass. Janet Macpherson of Toronto won the Shantz ceramics award. Brad Turner of Calgary, Alta. won the RBC glass ...
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Oggetti’s Dolly Table Lamp uses ancient glass blowing techniques to create an individualized glowing glass sphere of light and color. Capable of illuminating the space around it with a glowing radiance, the neutral and colorful ...
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The Perle 13 Flush Mount from Oggetti features clusters of handmade mouth-blown glass globes, each one showcases?traditional Muranese glassblowing techniques?of glass canes and murrines. The glass globes are detailed with ribbed, or ...
Bocci… if you love glass, light, and color Bocci's lighting designs fit the bill. ?These masters of glass, make each glass globe appear to be an absolute individual work of art. 28 is the divine exploration of the glass ...
"Glass takes shape and becomes a work of art in the hands of our masters." Lavia's lighting products are a result of 30 years of extraordinary glass blowing techniques.?Study these chandeliers to find that they exhibit qualities only ...
In India, contemporary glass artists form a small group and Srila Mookherjee belongs to this rare tribe. Rarer still is the fact that she blows her own glass. In the thriving glass industry at Firozabad, you would find many glass-blowers, ...
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Provincial Minister for Health and Education, Salima Hashmi, on Wednesday inaugurated three-day exhibition of Czech glass and porcelain products at Alhamra Arts Council here. Addressing on the occasion the provincial minister said that ...
Flaming torches and fire-breathing dragons are just a few of the amazing features at the 11th Virginia Hot Glass Festival this weekend at Sunspots Studios in downtown Staunton. Hot glass artists from around the region gather annually, ...
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lahore - The Czech Republic is organizing a three-day exhibition of Czech glass and porcelain products at Alhamra Arts Council from April 24 to 26, 2013 (Wednesday-Friday). More than eight leading Czech glass and porcelain manufacturing ...
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Spencer Cleland says he's well beyond love when it comes to his feelings about glass. The 28-year-old Mounds View native is studying the art of glassmaking at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, which has one of the oldest ...
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