Oval coloured fruit bowl- Laurus

Colour crystal oval fruit bowl- laurus, 100 % hand painted Take a look at similar nice things: Colour crystal vase- boston GLASS COLOURING HISTORY THEN AND NOW Around 3500 BC, the first real glass was produced in Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. Some of the first coloured glass objects were beads and small jars. These early glassmakers discovered that adding different substances to the melt would change the resulting colour. Once methods of making coloured glass were discovered, an explosion of experimentation began. The aim was to find substances that would produce specific colours in the glass. In the eighth century, the Persian chemist Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan, often known simply as 'Geber', recorded dozens of recipes for making glass of specific colours. Geber is often referred to as the "father of chemistry", due to his recognition that metal oxides were a key ingredient for colouring glass. Today each glassworks has its own traditions and its own secret recipes for creating a range of colours. So don't expect exact recipes for specific shades, each glassmaker guards the exact recipes like an eye in the head. What we can reveal to you, however, is the dyeing process. And…