Ever wanted to learn glassblowing? Before you learn how to blow glass, you should first learn how glassblowing became what it is today.
Man-made glass, which is used in glassblowing today, was made by Mesopotamian potters.
They were able to produce glass by fusing sand and some minerals while firing their clay.
The mixture of those elements produced the first man-made glass in history.
But how did that led to glassblowing? Nearly a thousand years after the production of the first glass, a curious Mesopotamian was able to create a glass tube.
He tried to blow a bubble in that tube and was successful to do so.
That made the first blow pipe and the art and craft of glassblowing.
The art spread and was flourished in Ancient Rome.
Glass production was made available to both the rich and the poor making it very popular.
The rise of Islam also became the rise of glassblowing after the fall of Rome.
They introduced color to the art and therefore adding more aesthetics in the glass products.
The Islamic Era was not the end of the flourishing art of glassblowing.
The art traveled different kingdoms and was made famous around the world.
Italy became the center of glass making in the time of Renaissance.
It continued in Britain and landed on the New World.
The history of glassblowing continued to flourish up to the modern era.
New techniques were discovered and explored creating more and more possibilities.
The rich history of the craft established the preciousness of glass-blown products today.