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Robert Willson, Image-maker
Glass artist Robert Willson (1912-2000) was one of the most complex and contradictory American artists of the past century. He was at once regional and international, steeped in Pre-Columbian art as well as Texas folklore. Educated in the Southwest a...
Engraved Glass. International Contemporary Artists
It is the transparent quality of glass that makes engraved glass special. The fusion of remarkable technical skill with artistic vision and the hard unforgiving medium of glass through which light passes gives engraved glass its special magic.
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The window Glass makers of St. Helens
This is a record of window glass making by the Company of Pilkington Brothers, at Grove Street, St. Helens from 1826 to 1952. It is wholly about the sheet and rolled glass making factory known as Sheet Works, located in St. Helens at Grove Street onl...
Basic Optical Stress Measurement in Glass
During the manufacture of all glass products, both temporary and residual stresses develop. Such stresses arise as a consequence of the manufacturing processes and for proper process control to be exercised it is necessary to be able to quantify thes...
Raw Materials for Glass Melting
This handbook serves as a practical guide on raw materials used in glass melting to those concerned with batch handling, glass melting, glass compositions, purchase of raw materials, etc.
Chandeliers
De kroonluchter is het pronkstuk in vele klassiek ingerichte/vormgegeven kamers. Hij staat weer volop in de belangstelling. Dit boek gaat over de geschiedenis van de kroonluchter...
Mieke Groot
Ceramics and Glass: a Basic Technology
At first sight the two crafts of producing pottery and making articles in glass seem to be completely separate, however, they have a great deal in common. One process involves the cold working of a plastic material which becomes permanently hardened ...
The Legend of Bohemian Glass
In dit boek laat Antonin Langhamer je het hele spectrum zien van Tsjechisch glas. Hij vertelt over de artistieke, technische, economische en commerciële geschiedenis van glas.
Contemporary Warm Glass
Contemporary Warm Glass is een waardevol en nuttig boek voor de beginnende fuser EN voor de ervaren warm glas kunstenaar.
Masterpieces of Glass. A world history from the Corning Museum of Glass
By Robert Charleston This book presents landmark works from the collection of The Corning Museum of Glass and describes in great detail the many remarkable achievements in glassmaking history that they represent. The volume includes 100 color illustr...
