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  2. Glassblowing - Wikipedia

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    The glass blowing tradition was carried on in Europe from the medieval period through the Middle Ages to the Renaissance in the demise of the Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. During the early medieval period, the Franks manipulated the technique of glassblowing by creating the simple corrugated molds and developing the claws decoration ...

  3. Medieval stained glass - Wikipedia

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    Medieval stained glass is the colored and painted glass of medieval Europe from the 10th century to the 16th century. For much of this period stained glass windows were the major pictorial art form, particularly in northern France, Germany and England, where windows tended to be larger than in southern Europe (in Italy, for example, frescos were more common).

  4. History of glass - Wikipedia

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    Evidence of the use of the blown plate glass method dates back to 1620 in London and was used for mirrors and coach plates. Louis Lucas de Nehou and A. Thevart perfected the process of casting polished plate glass in 1688 in France. Prior to this invention, mirror plates, made from blown "sheet" glass, had been limited in size.

  5. Forest glass - Wikipedia

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    German drinking glass of the 17th century. Forest glass (Waldglas in German) is a type of medieval glass produced in northwestern and central Europe from approximately 1000–1700 AD using wood ash and sand as the main raw materials and made in factories known as glasshouses in forest areas. [1]

  6. ‘A rare individual.’ How one artist in Danville inspired a ...

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    Powell, an internationally known glass artist, helped train and build up other artists throughout the region. ‘A rare individual.’ How one artist in Danville inspired a generation of glass blowers

  7. Corning Museum of Glass - Wikipedia

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    The Hot Glass Show is a demonstration where one of the museum's glass blowers provides a live glass-blowing demonstration, which is also narrated by another of the glass blowers. The Hot Glass Show is performed at the museum, on the road, and at sea on three Celebrity Cruise ships. [citation needed] At the museum, the Hot Glass Show is offered ...

  8. Anglo-Saxon glass - Wikipedia

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    Anglo-Saxon and later Medieval glass in Britain: Some recent developments. Medieval Archaeology 22:1-24. Heck, M. & P. Hoffmann 2002. Analysis of Early Medieval Glass Beads: The raw materials to produce green, orange and brown colours. Microchimica Acta 139:71-76. Henderson, J. 1992. Early medieval glass technology: the calm before the storm.

  9. Yes, You Can Rent Out Your Eyeball For Money

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    They were also easier to adjust when flawed -- glass eyes could not be altered once they had hardened. M&G has loyal customers who have returned over the course of several decades and multiple generations -- like 65-year-old Laurine Cummings, who first came to the Gougelmanns in 1984 after losing her eye to choroidal melanoma at the age of 33.