Photos tagged as glass

Glass Blowing

• Date: 10 May 2009
• Photographer: teethetrav: gallery
• Location: USA: gallery
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Firing the Glass

• Date: 10 May 2009
• Photographer: teethetrav: gallery
• Location: USA: gallery
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Blowing a Blue Bubble

• Date: 10 May 2009
• Photographer: teethetrav: gallery
• Location: USA: gallery
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Reflection

Within one of the small tombs in the Montparnasse Cemetary

• Date: 4 November 2008
• Photographer: baluba: gallery
• Location: Paris, France: gallery
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Glasgow Cathedral

• Date: September 2008
• Photographer: rwills89: gallery
• Location: Scotland: gallery
• Tags: architecture church glass stained
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Auto Glass Repair, Auto glass Replacement, Auto Glass Quality

Saw this neat sign on a building in Charlotte North Carolina, while coming back from playing golf.

• Date: 10 March 2008
• Photographer: autoglass: gallery
• Location: USA: gallery
• Tags: glass auto charlotte
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Piccadilly Station, London

The feature glass wall

• Date: 13 February 2008
• Photographer: DenOS.08: gallery
• Location: London, United Kingdom: gallery
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Day 139 - Walton Museum, Carnival Glass

Tiffany for the working class - this style of glass was popular, but became so overproduced they were given as prizes in fairs and carnivals

• Date: 18 January 2008
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Walton, USA: gallery
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Decorative Glass Naxos

I'm not sure what these glass items on Naxos were, but they made a great pattern

• Date: 12 July 2008
• Photographer: RBruceW: gallery
• Location: Greece: gallery
• Tags: glass mediterranean naxos agean cyclades greek_island decorative
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The Ring

Miranda's engagement ring

• Date: 7 December 2007
• Photographer: Mike D.: gallery
• Location: , Canada: gallery
• Tags: glass hand engagement ring
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Bangkok Airport Cieling

How interesting...

• Date: December 2007
• Photographer: Kyra: gallery
• Location: Bangkok, Thailand: gallery
• Tags: architecture lights bangkok glass blue internationalairport
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Germany - Pixelated window

Stained glass in Cologne cathedral

• Date: 26 November 2007
• Photographer: nbennion: gallery
• Location: Cologne, Germany: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Stankard Botanical

Paul Joseph Stankard creates delicate glass flowers sometimes including root structures, using glass rods and gas flames, a technique called "flameworking", then encases them in a glass block.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Pressed Glass Board

In addition to displaying many types of glass objects by era and type, the museum includes very informative signage about the background, methods, history and sometimes uses and artists.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Nursing Bottle

One of the early uses for glass in America was for nursing bottles.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Millville Rose

Anthony "Tony" DePalma, who was a Wheaton glass artist for many years, invented a method to create a glass 'rose' inside a paperweight.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Milk Glass Cat

Mom had one of these, although with white eyes, that she inherited from here mother. It was one of her most cherished possessions, but met an unfortunate demise at the ruthless hands of a vacuum cleaner.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Worlds Largest Bottle

This was cast in Wheaton on 9/26/92. It is 7' 8" tall and has a capacity of 188 gallons.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Glass Art

This piece is at the entrance to the Museum and is one of their more popular pieces. The hands were cast from the artists grandparents, parents, then himself. The glass dripping represent passing down the glass making art from generation to generation.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Glass History

This board shows the significant dates in glass history. I had to take it from the side to reduce glare, but is still interesting.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, South Jersey Green

In the 18th and early 19th century, American glassworkers generally used local sand. In New Jersey, the sand included impurities such as iron, which gave the glass an aqua/green tint. This became known as "South Jersey Green" glass.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Edison Lightbulb

This is a replica of the first successful lightbulb created by Thomas A. Edison. Glass was so critical to the development of the lightbulb, the Menlo Park Complex included their own glass blowing operation.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Cranberry Glass

There were many different types of glass and methods for coloring glass on display. I especially liked this color, which was also very popular during the Victorian period in England and America. The color is caused by Gold oxide.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Very Early New Jersey Glass

The green color comes from impurities (iron oxide) in the south NJ sand. The swirl pattern was common for German glass makers as it made it harder for the bottle to slip out of ones hand.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Glass Chess Set

This artist had a Jewish father and Catholic mother (I didn't take notes, so might have that backwards). Anyway, he created this chess set to represent the conflicting religions in his own background as well as in society in general.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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