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EL VIDRIO 'BUFAT'
- GLASS BLOWING
The process used in Majorca to make handcrafted glass objects,
or at least the most common process, is glass blowing, the
origins of which date back to the second century.
Tongs and a blowpipe the only tools for making the most varied glass
objects
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Up until then, glass artefacts were fashioned by using
sand or clay moulds in which the molten glass was poured.
The process of glass blowing consists of placing an
iron tube into a mass of molten glass, and then blowing
down the tube, inflating the glass as though it were
a balloon. To give shape to this "balloon",
it is revolved on the tube while the molten material
is pulled into shape with tongs.
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When the piece has been given the required form, it is separated
from the tube with a blade.
Master Glass blowers
Vidrieries Gordiola. Carretera Palma a Manacor,
km 19. Algaida: all kinds of blown glass as ornaments.
One can visit the museum as well as the workshop
S.C.L.Menestralia. Carretera
de Palma a Alcúdia, km 36. Campanet
LaFiore.
SA. Carretera de Valldemossa, km 11. s'Esglaieta
Vidrierías
Artísticas Mayra Carrá. C/ de
Tiziano, 26. Palma. Design and manufacture of windows,
chandeliers
and light fittings
Josefina Seguí.
'Candilon' glassmaker. C/ Ferrer de Pallares,
36B. Palma.
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