glassblower
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glassblowers
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The drink, which costs $45, comes in a special vessel designed by a local glassblower.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
In February 2023, the Washington State University art history professor and practicing glassblower was studying a private collection of Roman glass cage cups at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 16, 2025
The book opens with Agnes Carter, a wealthy donor to a Boston university, who hires Ignace Novak, a naturalist and glassblower, to create scientific models.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2023
“It was locals on weekdays and locals and tourists on the weekends,” said Johnson, who was partial to the joke shop, glassblower and game arcade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2020
It had been handcrafted by a local glassblower and was her mom’s favorite part of the lobby.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
In this series, we highlight independent makers and artists, from glassblowers to fiber artists, who are creating original products in and around Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
She often worked with glassblowers and welders, scavenging her materials from scrap yards and haunting the plumbing suppliers along Canal Street.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
Christmas fans find unusual designs, traditional jewellery from European glassblowers, and Swiss souvenirs.
From Reuters ● Dec. 7, 2022
Already, the sector has scaled back from an industry with thousands of workers in the 1960s and 1970s to a network of mostly small and medium-sized artisanal enterprises employing a total of some 300 glassblowers.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2021
I pictured my heart and ribs blown from glass, tiny air bubbles throughout, like in the documentary about Mexican glassblowers I’d watched with Mom that summer.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
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