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Today Glassious will talk about Glass Making. Do you know
anything about it? Glass making, how people produce glass, where did it found
for the first time, what techniques people use to make a glass and so on...
Well, glass has been exist since the beginning of earth
trough natural process in a volcano mountain, but, it is said that the glass
making was found in the first time in Mesopotamia and Egypt about 4.000 years
ago. That’s why glass making is included as an ancient art. On the beginning of
glass making era, it didn’t called as an art, glass object was made mostly for personal
adornment, for inlays to create decorative scenes on wooden and ivory
furniture, and also made into containers to hold precious scented oils in
Egypt. Glass was considered as luxury item and was reserved for upper classes
at the beginning of its time, such as for pharaoh and nobility.
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Now, glass making has become an art in this modern era. One of
the techniques in glass making, called glass blowing, is a technique to make a
glass as a container such as bottle, plate, bowl, and so on. Glass blower use a
long steel pipe to hold the glass material, melt it in a temperature of lava,
and blow it to make a bulb of air inside the glass.
Many glass blower has been making a fascinating art of
glass. They make glass objects in many different form and colours. The glass
objects nowadays has been used as a utensils and decorations. Here are some of
pictures of the fascinating glass that has been made...
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For more information, you can take a look at http://m.cmog.org/collection/galleries/origins-of-glassmaking
and http://scribbol.com/art-and-design/art/the-ancient-of-glassblowing/
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