Glass Blowing Designs and Expressions. A Historical Review.

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen Glass Blowing Designs and Expressions have changed through the Sands of Time.

Art began as a means of communication in cuneiform which was a system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia nearly 5500 years ago in 3500-3000 BCE.

Historical data points to creative Glass Blowing Designs and Expressions which slowly began to be interwoven into the history of the world from the ancient past and new innovations to glass blowing, and the many designs and expressions are still birthing new styles and techniques  even now into our modern age.

Evidence of glass blowing was found during the Copper Age, and it was found in Hastinapur, India. Some of the earliest art glass items were found around the era of the Indus Valley Civilization which dates back to 3300 unto 1300 BCE, tied and linked together unto the Ancient World.

Mesopotamia has some of the earliest examples of art glass design and development, and experimentation. One such example is a brown glass bead found at Harappa that dates to 1700 BCE.

Some of the most ancient known glass vessel fragments have been derived from Ancient Mesopotamian Society, items of which had been, and were created during the Ancient Past in Mesopotamia.

There is also evidence of independent glassmaking in Greece, China and North Tyrol. Glass art vessels which had been discovered in Egypt thus point to glass development being produced in Egypt around as early as the era of 1800 BCE. And there are evidences that glass vessel production began on the Italian peninsula as early as the beginning of the Roman Republic back in 509 BCE.

And discovered glass artifacts show that the Phoenicians began experimenting with glass blowing techniques as early as 48 BCE. At around 500 AD The Renaissance Age revolutionizes Italy’s art glass blowing industry, art gallery quality, and specifically amazing works of art ware fashioned, formed, and molded into one of a kind art glass vessels on the island of Murano.

In around 659 AD in the time of the Byzantine Empire is when the Byzantines created glass with Jewish and Christian religious symbols in Jerusalem, Israel.

Glass Production began in America having its beginning experimentation in Jamestown, Virginia way back in 1608, with one of America’s first glass factories beginning to operate just a little more than a year after the first colonists arrived from England.

Thus it was back in 1608 in Jamestown, Virginia that began the Love Story of America’s “Passion for the Flame, and of the Love of Glass design. They were so amazed, and pleased by the beauty of what they crafted, the “Tryal of Glasse made the arrangements and it was sent it back unto England.

In those early pioneer days in 1608 not only did they create the Tryal of Glasse, the first glass made by Englishmen in the New World, in fact it was the first factory produced item that they ever made! It was the Brave, boldly going where no one ever journeyed ever before! It was undiscovered land.

In our day back in 1960 the Art Glass Movement was Revolutionized as American Artists and the individuality Art Glass Studio Movement was birthed.

Glass Artists began branching out into their very own unique and individual art glass studio’s, and enterprises and they began creating and selling their own work from their own glass studios, experimenting with various glass techniques.

The Art Glass Movement’s Advances are continuing to be made in the art glassmaking genre. And as the technological revolution to create, and to experiment with, and to fashion art glass bearing their own unique individual brands, the glass culture and genre of artistic expression continues to grow unto this very age in 2025.

Thus also new equipment and creatively innovative, exciting, reinvented, and brand new techniques are being fashioned to this present time and the future is a glowing global entrepreneurial journey that will continue until the end of time!