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There was a small piece of green colored glass discovered from Egypt circa 7000BC. When the object was analyzed with modern equipment, it was discovered that it was made of soda-lime glass, the same glass we use today for art objects and the majority of our window and tableware glass. Surprisingly, the analysis showed that the artifact was made using essentially the same formula we use today. My point being, humans have been making glass for a very long time, and there is nothing really “new in the kiln.” Our techniques have formalized, and we now make glasses for industrial, scientific and medical applications that are of a considerably different type, but the glass I and most in the field use has been around practically as long as the earth.

In my effort to present techniques to better inform visitors to this site, please do not take any of them as being original to my shop. The only exception to this statement is the ever developing Fusion Pour^TM technique, though the basic process of melting and pouring or flowing glass into a mold or onto a surface is basic not only to making the glass itself but to a myriad of methods. Fusion Pour^TM expands the idea with precise control of the elements and chemistry involved to yield more predictable results. My forthcoming book on the subject will explain the technique in detail.

For now, enjoy all the work and technique information, and feel free to contact me for any details I didn't provide.