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Glassblowers and Glassmiths
Glassblowing is a glass forming technique that involves inflating molten glass into a bubble (or parison), with the aid of a blowpipe (or blow tube).
A person who blows glass is called a glassblower, glassmith, or gaffer.
Image - From Charles Knight's Pictorial Gallery of Arts, England, 1858. Glassworking industry in England in 1858. Public Domain - New York Public Library Archives
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Related Occupations
- Bead makers - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_beadmaking
- Bottle maker
- Crown Glass- window (an early typle of window glassand Optics
- Flat Glass, sheet glass, plate glass
- Glass Sculpturers
- A lampworker manipulates glass with the use of a torch on a smaller scale, such as in producing precision laboratory glassware out of borosilicate glass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampworking
- Stained glass makers
Glassworkers of Interest
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See Glass artists - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_glass_artists
- Michael Joseph Owens (1859-1923) inventor of machines that could automate the production of glass bottles
- The writer Daphne du Maurier was descended from a family of glass-blowers in 18th century France, and she wrote about her forbears in the 1963 historical novel "The Glass-Blowers"
- 1834 Robert Lucas Chance introduced IMPROVED CYLINDER SHEET, using a German process to produce finer quality and larger panes. This glass was used to glaze The Crystal Palace. The process was used extensively until early in the 20th Century to make window glass. From this period onwards machines were developed to automate the production of obscured Glass and later, window glass.
- 1847 James Hartley introduced a ROLLED PLATE glass with obscured ribbed finish, which is often found glazed in the roofs of railway termini.
- 1898 Pilkingtons introduced Hexagonal Rolled WIRED CAST. The company was founded in 1826 as a partnership between members of the Pilkington and Greenall families, based in St Helens, Lancashire - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Pilkington
References and further Reading
- http://www.londoncrownglass.f9.co.uk/History.html
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_production
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:History_of_glass
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stained_glass
- http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?album=199&pos=8...
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