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  2. Hotwells - Wikipedia

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    Hotwells is approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Bristol city centre lying just north of the Floating Harbour and the River Avon.To the north and some 300 feet (91 m) higher is the suburb of Clifton.

  3. Nailsea Glassworks - Wikipedia

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    Oil on canvas of The Old Glass Works, Nailsea in about 1810. The glassworks was established by John Robert Lucas, in 1788 because of the plentiful supply of coal for the furnaces, from Elms colliery and other local mines of the Nailsea Basin and outlier of the Bristol Coalfield.

  4. Warm glass - Wikipedia

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    Higgins Glass, fused and slumped ashtray and bowl Fused glass piece with dichroic glass highlights. Warm glass or kiln-formed glass is the working of glass, usually for artistic purposes, by heating it in a kiln. The processes used depend on the temperature reached and range from fusing and slumping to casting.

  5. Category:Warm glass - Wikipedia

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    Warm glass is the working of glass, usually for artistic purposes, by heating it in a kiln. The processes used depend on the temperature reached and range from slumping , fusing to casting . 'Warm' glass is in contrast to the many cold-working glass processes, such as leaded glass .

  6. Rosalind Grimshaw - Wikipedia

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    Rosalind Grimshaw BA FMGP (3 March 1945 - 11 November 2020) [1] was a stained glass artist who lived in Clifton, Bristol looking towards the Clifton Suspension Bridge. Grimshaw had Parkinson's disease from her early 30s.

  7. Bristol blue glass - Wikipedia

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    It is uncertain when Bristol blue glass was first made but the quality and beauty of the glass swiftly gained popularity, with seventeen glass houses being set up in the city. [3] Lazarus and Isaac Jacobs were the most famous makers of Bristol blue glass in the 1780s. Lazarus Jacobs was a Jewish immigrant to Bristol from Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

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  9. Isaac Jacobs - Wikipedia

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    He sold his wares, along with secondhand goods, at Temple Fair in Bristol. In 1774 he set up a glass manufacturing business at 108 Temple Street. Isaac joined his father's business as a partner at age seventeen. [1] Using cobalt oxide imported by William Cookworthy from Saxony, Isaac designed and branded Bristol blue glass as it is known today.