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If minimalism is your preferred holiday aesthetic, the Kurt Adler Clear Glass Icicle Ornament Set will give your Christmas tree a subtle yet sparkling and elegant look.
Eckardt had been importing hand-blown glass balls from Germany since around 1907, but had the foresight to anticipate a disruption in his supply from the upcoming war. Corning adapted their process for making light bulbs to making clear glass ornaments, which were then shipped to Eckardt's factories to be decorated by hand.
A Japanese glass fishing float. Glass floats were once used by fishermen in many parts of the world to keep their fishing nets, as well as longlines or droplines, afloat.. Large groups of fishnets strung together, sometimes 50 miles (80 km) long, were set adrift in the ocean and supported near the surface by hollow glass balls or cylinders containing air to give them buoyancy.
Christmas tree lights and Christmas bulb. Christmas ornaments, baubles, globes, "Christmas bulbs", or "Christmas bubbles" are decoration items, usually to decorate Christmas trees. These decorations may be woven, blown ( glass or plastic ), molded ( ceramic or metal ), carved from wood or expanded polystyrene, or made by other techniques.
Decorator Glass Boxed Ornaments (Set of 9), $32 (Orig. $40) Marbled Multicolored Ball Ornaments, $7.20 (Orig. $9) Feather Ball Ornament, $9.60-$28.80 (Orig. $12-$36)
Noble Gems Merry Christmas Pickle Glass Ornament. Extra cheery and bright, just how we like our pickle holiday! Shop Now. Noble Gems Merry Christmas Pickle Glass Ornament. amazon.com. $9.10. More ...
A witch ball with a base or stand. Witch balls sometimes measure as large as seven inches (18 cm) in diameter. The witch ball is traditionally, but not always, green or blue in colour and made from glass (others, however, are made of wood, grass, or twigs instead of glass). Some are decorated in swirls and brilliant stripes of various colours.
A Celsius Galilean thermometer in two degree gradations. A risen orange orb denotes 24 °C. A Galileo thermometer (or Galilean thermometer) is a thermometer made of a sealed glass cylinder containing a clear liquid and several glass vessels of varying density.
Glassblowers have held on to the old molds. Glass ornaments are still created from these old molds. Method. A clear glass tube is heated over an open flame. It is then inserted into a mold. The glassblower then blows into the end of the tube. The glass expands to fill the mold. The glass takes on the shape of the mold. It is cooled.
Cloisonné. Pectoral of Senusret II, from his daughter's grave, using shaped stones rather than enamel. Cloisonné inlays on gold of carnelian, feldspar, garnet, turquoise, lapis lazuli, 1880s BC. Chinese Ming Dynasty cloisonné enamel bowl, using nine colours of enamel. Cloisonné ( French: [klwazɔne]) is an ancient technique for decorating ...