Friday, August 14, 2015

The Craft of Crystal

Andy | Friday, August 14, 2015 | Best Blogger Tips

The skill of glassblowing has been around for centuries. Located at the NovaScotian Crystal in Halifax, Nova Scotia, it is North America’s only mouth-blown, hand-cut crystal maker.

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  1. Now I am waiting on some eyepopping glas works.

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    1. Just click on the NovaScotian Crystal link and you will see some eye popping.

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  2. I like those old handcrafts, I saw this some time ago and it is amazing to see how something is shaped.

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  3. I'd be dangerous working in a place like this. :-)

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  4. Glassblowing has always fascinated me. Tom The Backroads Traveller

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  5. Its quite a rare place...didn't know that they still made it that way in US! Nice pic...

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  6. To me it's almost magical to see a glass object being created this way.

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  7. Great title for your image. Fun to watch the artists at work, isn't it?

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  8. I very much enjoy watching craftspeople blow glass!

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  9. This is an amazing thing to watch.

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  10. I'd be fascinated to watch them at work!

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  11. Nice to see this skill being carried on!

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  12. They blow glass at the Tacoma Museum of Glass (Washington, USA) but it's not a commercial venture like this. Glass is an amazing material!

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  13. I grew up in the same town where Blenko Glass Co. is located (still there today) and I used to love to watch them blowing the glass into various objects! Truly an art form!

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  14. They blow glass at the Art University I was at with hubby last Sept In Haliburton, Ontario. This is a real nice photo you took Andy like all pictures you enter.

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