Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
I'm giving you a brief description today on the different types of glass there are. I
would also like to add a little history about the inventor of some of our wonderful art
glass that is available. You may have heard of the name Tiffany and a lot of people are
very familiar with the Tiffany lamps but not many people know why they're called Tiffany
lamps or where that they came from. Tiffany lamps are actually named after Louis Comfort
Tiffany; he was with us from 1848 to 1933. He patented Favrile glass in 1880, which I'm
sorry I don't have any to show you of that today but he also invented the Ring model
glass. Which is right here and now the Favrile glass means "handcrafted" so it was actually
a handcrafted glass instead of machine made and Louis Comfort Tiffany believed, he was
convinced that the quality of contemporary glass could be improved upon so that's what
he set out to do and this in one of the examples of that beautiful work that he created for
us to be able to make our beautiful glass pieces with.