Graal Glass Technique

At first glance a graal glass piece can appear uncomplicated.

Graal glass technique.

Graal is a glassblowing technique developed by orrefors in sweden in 1916. The slip graal pieces are usually decorated with vertical lines that are ground onto the hot glass in a circular motion. Slip graal is a variation on the graal technique. Here participants own ideas stories decor or pictures can be cut into a prepared blank consisting of clear glass with one or more layers of colored overlay glass using sandblast glass engraving and cutting.

This technique is also known as turbine graal at orrefors. In this course you can learn about the graal technique a combination of hot and cold working techniques. Today it is used in other countries but it is a swedish speciality. Engraving can be combined with glass blowing skills to create quite different effects.

In the ariel technique a colored layer of glass is encased by a clear layer. Each graal glass piece with its elaborate decoration suspended in several layers of crystal glass can take more than 40 hours to complete. An example is graal a technique invented in sweden. Onto this blank a design is applied by sandblasting.

The graal glass technique was new for me and i approached it with a melancholical theme of drowning and diving in to deep waters. We will have some pre prepared embryos ready for students to decorate and sandblast then pick up gather over blow up and finish. The graal glass technique was invented by the designer simon gate in collaboration with the craftsman knut bergqvist at orrefors glasbruk sweden in 1916. With this technique glass objects are made with a color overlay that is cooled engraved reheated and encased in a layer of clear glass and.

The glass vases are all mouth blown at the university s studio in helsinki by glassblower elina piispanen. Under sonja s expert guidance students will have the opportunity to develop and master the technique. This is then encased in clear glass and it is heated again and blown into its final form and size. The intricacy of the graal technique often eludes the untrained eye.

The base is properly. Graal tutorial part one kevin andrews. The starting point is a blown glass bubble consisting of one or more layers of coloured glass overlaid on clear glass known as an embryo. With the help of a large team of assistance bremers made numerous graal objects and developed the original double graal technique which lead to a series of work called metamorphosis.

In the graal technique. Allentownsputnik recommended for you. You can find a video of the making here. Rather than being engraved or etched the motive is ground onto the coloured piece of glass.