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Lebanon's Recycled Bottles Makes Its Profits Increase

Feb 26, 2014

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 ...

Tags: Recycled Bottles, Glass Blower

Vernon Brejcha and The Magic Glass

Dec 24, 2013

Nothing, it seems, makes the hand of Vernon Brejcha quiver. Not the heat from a furnace that burns a few thousand degrees, not the weight of a five-foot pole with a ball of fire attached to its end, and not even the frailty of a very, ...

Tags: Magic of Glass, Lawhorn's Lawrence

Colored Glass Related to American Culture and Design

Dec 3, 2013

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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Garbage Haulers Take Recycled Glass Oregon Landfills

Nov 29, 2013

EUGENE – Tens of thousands of Eugene and Springfield residents routinely rinse and set aside nondeposit wine, juice and other bottles and jars, then put them out for curbside recycling in specially marked boxes. Recycling crews haul ...

Tags: Recycled Glass, Oregon Landfills

The Perle 13 Flush Mount From Oggetti Features Clusters

Oct 22, 2013

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 ...

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Best Way to Spot Quality Is to Ting a Glass and Listen

Aug 2, 2013

When it comes to glassware, most people think that that best way to spot quality is to ting a glass and listen. If you educate your eyes to spot a high quality piece of crystal, you can give your ears the day off. Why? The sound of a ting ...

Tags: Construction, glass, decoration

Ryukyu glass Is Coveted Around Japan

Jul 9, 2013

Ryukyu glass, with its colorful simplicity, is coveted around Japan, not just in Okinawa Prefecture where it originated. With the onset of summer, Ryukyu glass can be a cool gift and a receptacle for your favorite shochu. “The ...

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The National Glass Centre Relaunched in Sunderland

Jun 26, 2013

This fascinating footage looks back at the traditions of glassmaking and glassblowing in Sunderland, to coincide with the relaunch of the National Glass Centre. It shows craftsman glass blowers at the Wear Flint Glass Works, Sunderland, ...

Tags: Glass, Construction, Decoration

The 2013 Rakow Grant for Glass Research Will Support Two Studies by Researchers

May 13, 2013

The 2013 Rakow Grant for Glass Research will support two studies by researchers Dr. Souen Fontaine of the Centre Camille Jullian (CNRS-Aix-Marseille University) in France and Dr. Rainer Richter of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. ...

Tags: Glass Rakow Grant, Glass Research, Glass

The Artwork of Robin&Julia Rogers Will Be Featured at Hocking College Glass Invitational

Mar 25, 2013

The artwork of Robin and Julia Rogers will be featured at this year's Hocking College Glass Invitational, hosted by the school's Art, Design and Marketing program. The event will kick off Thursday, March 28 with an artists’ lecture ...

Tags: Glass Invitational, Glass, glassblowing

John Pomp's Lumenariums Are Similar to a Terrarium But with Light or Luminaries Inside

Dec 24, 2012

John Pomp’s Lumenariums are similar to a terrarium but with light or luminaries inside instead of plants and sand. John Pomp’s unique life history seems to have brought him to the perfect stages of design influence, creating a ...

Tags: light, luminaries, design influence, lighting, decor

Corning Museum of Glass Has Acquired a Rare

Dec 14, 2012

The Corning Museum of Glass has acquired a rare, early 19th-century American blown-glass creamer for its comprehensive glass collection, which spans 35 centuries. The small light blue creamer, which measures 12.6 cm high and 5.5 cm in ...

Tags: Glass Creamer, comprehensive glass, glass, American glass

Contemporary Glass as Pure Art Is Relatively New

Dec 11, 2012

Glass has been with us at least from the first century BC,but most of the time we either look through it or drink from it—we don't generally look at it.While the magnificent stained glass windows in Renaissance cathedrals are works of ...

Tags: stained glass windows, illumination, art

Corning Museum of Glass Today Unveiled Its 2012 Rakow Commission Work

Oct 24, 2012

The Corning Museum of Glass today unveiled its 2012 Rakow Commission work:Flower Blockby Danish artist Steffen Dam.The artist's most ambitious work to date,Flower Blockis a grouping of 24 glass blocks in the style of his well-known series ...

Tags: museum, glass, Danish

Cooper - Hewitt Will Offer Public Programs in Conjunction with The Exhibition Graphic

May 27, 2012

The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt,National design Museum will offer a series of public programs in conjunction with the exhibition Graphic design-Now in Production,on view at Governors Island,through Sept 3,to engage the public in design ...

Tags: Production, Design, Cooper-Hewitt

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