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 Bohemian Glass Art Gallery in Krasnodar |
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The company “Evans Ug” (Partner Company and official representative of “Design Glassware - Mont Blue”) is formed in the beginning of 2006 and exclusively represents in the south of Russia production of leading Czech workshops of glass.
Productions of workshops are author's works of world famous designers, embodied in the glass subjects of an interior executed from glass: glass vases, candlesticks, bowls, flowers, subjects for an ornament and table layouts.
Products from glass will completely change vital space in an apartment, a country house, office, hotel, restaurant, etc. and will help to show your refined taste and adherence to a fashion.
On a site you can familiarize with catalogues of glass and crystal manufacturers, their histories, and also choose and order subjects from assortment of presented production.
Within the limits of our work we invite to cooperation:
- Design - studios, elite furniture and интерьерные interiors
- Galleries and boutiques of glass
- Antique shops for sale of exclusive products in antique style
- Shops of exclusive gifts and expensive souvenirs
- Designers, architects and other private persons, interiors engaged by registration
- Advertising agencies for cooperation in the field of sale of souvenirs for large firms and the companies, corporate clients
- Shops of expensive costume jewelry and accessories
- Restaurants, bars, hotels (glass objects of interior)
- Organizations willing to open business in cities of Russia and in the CIS countries.
We will be glad to see you as our partners.
Our glass gallery is also a show room and glass shop with hundreds of Bohemian Crystal Glass Art items and pieces. Our location and contacts can be found on our Contacts page.
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Inventing Cut glass
Lead glass is the most suitable type for cutting. Invented in England and Ireland it was most fashionable during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Specialist craftsmen developed a variety of complex patterns during the Regency period, though simpler patterns became more fashionable during the 1820s. The object is held above at iron or stone wheel which cuts deep facets or grooves in the surface, which are then polished to create a brilliant sparking surface.
Making technique of cut glass
The technique for cutting glass for decorative purposes began as early as the 1st century BC. Today there are basically four processes involved:
The piece is marked by drawing the required pattern onto the blank glass body with a felt-tip pen. The item is then roughed by cutting the main lines of the pattern into the glass using a power-driven iron wheel, which has a steady stream of fine wet sand running over it to act as an abrasive on the surface of the item.
These cuts are dull and coarse and do not cover the whole of the pattern. The wheel used can either be flat, curved or V-shaped, depending on the type of cut required. The glass is then smoothed using a variety of sandstone wheels, with a continuous flow of water running over the cutting surface for cooling and lubrication. The wheels have a similar-shaped cutting edge to those used in the roughing process, but many different-sized wheels are used to cut the detail of the pattern onto the glass, with the smaller lines being cut at this stage, without previous roughing.
The accuracy of the cutting relies solely on the skill of the craftsman. Polishing the item is the final and most time-consuming process. A wooden wheel with a fine abrasive surface is worked by hand over all the cut lines, and a felt wheel is often used for finishing giving a final shine to the piece. Polishing by acid-dipping leaves a bright finish.
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