The Blenko factory, located in Milton, West Virginia, a few minutes off Interstate 64, has an onsite museum displaying some of its innovative designs, along with an observation area. Here visitors may watch, up close, as workers heat, shape, blow and cut colorful glass pieces into vases, bottles and other items. [...] the piece is removed from the blowpipe, and a finisher completes the piece by cutting off ragged edges and working with the soft glass so that it matches a master design. Because each piece is made by hand, no two pieces are exactly alike. After several ups and downs, he moved to Milton in the early 1920s partly because of the abundance of cheap, local natural gas, used to fuel the furnaces. The switch was prompted by the Great Depression, when a downturn in cathedral and church-building ravaged the market for stained glass. In the mid-20th century, the company's innovative craftsmen began to be recognized with design awards for their handcrafted tableware. The onsite gift shop offers many types and colors of vases, bottles, glasses, bowls and other items.
West Virginia: Watch Glass Being Made By Hand At Blenko
By DOROTHY ABERNATHY, Associated Press, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Living
Thu, 02/11/2016 - 9:26am
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