Glass Figurines
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Glass Figurines
Glass Figurines champion all the effects of the sun, wind and rain to stay like new.
Glass figurines are synonymous with magnificent splendor. Man-kind has been spellbound, since ancient times by this transparent material used in glass figurines.
Glass spheres and figurines have always had an air of supernatural or mystical appeal to them that has lasted through-out time. Legendary medieval magicians could predict the future by gazing into these glass figurines and globes.
The only ingredients that are required to make glass figurines is sand, soda, lime and a furnace capable of approximately 3600 degrees F or 1982 degrees C, to transform it into a liquid. As it cools you will need to keep the glass at 500 degrees C, which is the workable temperature to shape your glass figurines and to maintain their transparency. If your sand has a presence of iron in it a greenish tint will result. This should be easy, right?
There is a legend that Roman seamen were on the beach while making the evening meal they set their pots on stones of natron. As the fire burned hotter it melted the sand and the sodium carbonate together into an extraordinary liquid, as it cooled it became the first man-made glass. That’s not accurate history, just a story.
Glass appears to have been fabricated in figurine form somewhere around the second millennium BC, by the Egyptian or the Phoenicians. Pieces of finely made glass presumably from figurines were found in Mesopotamia, believed to date from around one thousand years earlier, apparently this is where it was first started.
Somewhere in the first century BC, one of the skilled Syrians created the first glass blowpipe, which came into widespread use as the art of glassblowing. This caused glass and figurines to become accessible to the common people throughout the Roman Empire, and then spread into many other countries.
In the Fourth and Fifth centuries the industry of glassmaking and glass figurines was thriving in Iraq, Iran and in Egypt, but did not flourish in Europe until the thirteenth century.
The Venetians became the link between ancient glass figurines and the modern glass art industry. In Venice the first exceptionally clear glass was invented and in the fifteenth century glass figurines were heavily exported. Today Venetian glass production and glass figurines are world renowned for quality and form.
A process was developed in the 1820’s of mechanically pressing hot glass. This forced the entire glass blowing artists’ workforce that made figurines to go work in the factories.
This all changed in 1962 when Harvery Littleton discovered that some glass to fashion figurines could be melted at temperatures low enough that it could be done in small home and studio furnaces. A rebirth of glass figurines from small studios and workshops was regenerated by his discovery, using more or less the same tools as they did two thousand years ago. This trend has simply accelerated both nationally and internationally as the available of glass figurines in today’s market is abundant.
A few of the limitless list of manufacturers of these mesmerizing glass figurines are; Art Glass Productions, Cast Glass Forms, Crystal Clear, Fenton Art Glass, Gillinder Glass and Glass symphony, all located in the United States. Also there are Armani and Murano from Italy, makers of figurines you may recognize.
Glass figurines with the clear clarity and the many brilliant colors make the perfect accent addition to any room décor. For yourself or to be the perfect gift for a friend or loved one, you must see today’s marketplace of available alluring glass figurines.
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