These spectacular blown glass spiral buds are created through an exciting collaborative work between Czech and California artisans. The artists combine American and European designs with the finest glass-blowing techniques and traditions of Europe, creating eclectic, contemporary and original art glass. This collaboration was started in 1997 by Pavel Hanousek, a Czech glass artist who now resides in California.
Each of these mouth-blown glass buds begins with a small crystal bubble which is started by one artisan at the blow pipe. Another more skilled artisan then takes over, using tremendous skill and lung strength to blow the bubble into the shape of a bud. Over a period of a few hours to a few days the piece is slowly cooled, cut, ground and polished.
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