Thursday, May 6, 2010



Crown glass was an early type of window glass. In this process, glass was blown into a "crown" or hollow globe. This was then transferred from the blowpipe to a pontil and then flattened by reheating and spinning out the bowl-shaped piece of glass (bullion) into a flat disk by centrifugal force, up to 5 or 6 feet (1.5 to 1.8 metres) in diameter. The glass was then cut to the size required.


The thinnest glass was in a band at the edge of the disk, with the glass becoming thicker and more opaque toward the center.
Due to the distribution of the best glass, in order to fill large window spaces many small diamond shapes would be cut from the edge of the disk and these would be mounted into a lead lattice work and fitted in the window. Known as a bullseye, the thicker center area around the pontil mark was used for less expensive windows.
Crown glass was one of the two most common processes for making glass for windows up until the 19th century. The other was blown plate. The process was first perfected by French glassmakers in the 1320s, notably around Rouen. The process was kept a careful trade secret. As a result, crown glass was not made in London until 1678.

Crown glass is one of many types of hand-blown glass. Other methods include: broad sheet, blown plate, polished plate and cylinder blown sheet. These methods of manufacture lasted at least until the end of the 19th century. The early 20th century marks the move away from hand-blown to machine manufactured glass such as rolled plate, machine drawn cylinder sheet, flat drawn sheet, single and twin ground polished plate and float glass.




(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_glass_(window))

Butterflies - handcrafted glass figurines




Seven happy little butterflies made from freeformed glass with little hooles at the end of one wing to hang them up in the air. Made with love to greet spring and summer.

I use all the colors of the rainbow. The colors of your butterflies may also come as a surprise and not always as same as in the picture.




You can also choose your favourite colors and mail me your wishes.

freeformed from a masterglassblower (me :-)) in a flame, original thurigian glassart
every single piece is unique,
my work is not undestroyable but very sturdily,
overall length: about 2 inches

~Please regard, that all my work is handmade and unique, so there can be little variations in color and shape~

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Green and golden Snake Pendant



Snakes are mysterious, sexy, elegantly and beautiful.


freeformed from a masterglassblower (me :-)) in a flame,
every single piece is unique,
my work is not undestroyable but very sturdily,
overall length: about 1,8 inches

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Birth of a Butterfly Part 1

Pufferfish Earrings - wearable glassfigurine jewelry



I love "Finding Nemo" and I love "Puff".. :-)

1 pair
freeformed from a masterglassblower (me :-)) in a flame,
every single piece is unique,
the pufferfishes are not undestroyable but very sturdily,
overall length with goldplated surgeon-stole hooks: about 1 inch

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Helix Earrings



1 pair
freeformed from a masterglassblower (me :-)) in a flame,
every single piece is unique,
the earrings are not undestroyable but very sturdily,

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Elves and Faerie leaves - wearable glassfigurine jewelry



1 pair
freeformed from a masterglassblower (me :-)) in a flame,
every single piece is unique,
the leaves are not undestroyable but very sturdily,
overall length with surgeon-stole hooks: about 1,4 inches

Birth of a Butterfly Part 2

Golden Snake Earrings - wearable glass figurines



elegantly snakes with golden sparks

1 pair
freeformed from a masterglassblower (me :-)) in a flame,
every single piece is unique,
the snakes are not undestroyable but very sturdily,
overall length with goldplated surgeon-stole hooks: about 2,3 inches

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Faerie earrings - glass figurines



little elves to magic your days

1 pair
freeformed from a masterglassblower (me :-)) in a flame,
every single piece is unique,
the elves are not undestroyable but very sturdily,
overall length with genuine silver hooks: about 1 inch

Love?

1 pair Elephant Earrings blue with genuine silver hooks



little elephant to make you happy :-)

1 pair
freeformed from a masterglassblower (me :-)) in a flame,
every single piece is unique,
the elephants are not undestroyable but very sturdily,
overall length with genuine silver hooks: about 1 inch

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Dragon earrings - green glass figurines - wearable glassart



Where dragons live there is magic, chaos and often enough fire. But there are secrets, adventures and even the possibility to learn about a new world...

1 pair freeformed from a masterglassblower (me :-)) in a flame, every single piece is unique, the dragons are not undestroyable but very sturdily, overall length with sterling silver hooks: about 1,60 inches

You can also choose your favourite colors and mail me your wishes.

~Please regard, that all my work is handmade and unique, so there can be little variations in color and shape~ 

 Now on Etsy

Welcome , Willkommen, Osiyo, Bienvenu...

So now I am here, show you my work like I would do on every market and in every school I visited in the last years and will answer all your questions as long as I can. I am on Deviantart now for some time and very fresh on Etsy  and enjoy both communities there. I have found good friends and so much support I want to give some back. So this will be my first blog in english and I hope you will enjoy it.


I started working with glass in 1998, lived and learned glassblowing in Lauscha, a really small Town in the Thuringian Forest who became known for its glassblowing. You like to decorate your christsmastree with glass? The baubles were first made in Lauscha, Germany, by Hans Greiner  who produced garlands of glass beads similar to the popcorn strands and tin figures that could be hung on trees. The popularity of these decorations grew into the production of glass figures made by highly skilled artisans with clay molds. (source for further information wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_ornament)

I have worked with glass for nearly twelve years. And I am still at the surface. I am a softglass artist from Germany, so please excuse when my english is not always perfect. I am getting better and will not be offended, if you correct me from time to time.

2003 I started my own business.
2005 I graduated as a masterglassblower.

I love to work massiv, combined with stone, wood, bone and other materials nature provides.