The origins of
glassmaking can be traced back to 2,500 BC.
Ironically the same set of five cricketers bowling batting, catching, throwing and resting, formerly in the Roger Pilkington Collection (of
glassmaking fame) is now in the Lords Museum.
Mastermind BBC2, Fri, 7.30pm Every now and again, someone complains Britain's most prestigious quiz show is dumbing down - mainly because a contestant has chosen to be grilled on their favourite band or TV show, rather than, say, Carthaginian
glassmaking.
The Czech Republic has the highest quality silica sand and other raw materials used in
glassmaking, so people learnt the craft and passed it on to future generations.
He went on to learn the technique of
glassmaking, before joining his father at the factory in 1867.
If
glassmaking is one of Venice's oldest industries, it is also one of the most obscure.
"Glass is obtained by melting sand at 1500 degrees Celsius in a masonry (brick) oven, " said Ahmed Nwailati, owner of
glassmaking workshop in the handicrafts market in Damascus.
Founder James "JJ" Riviello, a glassmaker for more than 25 years who has studied and taught at some of the best
glassmaking schools in the country, designed and built a lot of the machines that will be used in the
glassmaking process.
geek-fact: 2017 was the 725th anniversary of the Venetian law which banished
glassmaking to the island of Murano!) which gives plenty of scope for luscious settings and costumes.
'The
glassmaking tradition in the Czech Republic spans centuries,' says Stephanie Villaraza Frondoso of Spektacularis.
Ancient Mesopotamians have been credited with inventing
glassmaking around 3,600 years ago.