My latest sculpture is done! I blew the glass myself, and made ferrofluid, and put this whole thing together. The little wooden stones have magnets in them to manipulate the ferrofluid.
Of course all I can see are the bits that I wanted to be different, but I'm trying to be proud of what I made. This was my first time ever blowing glass, and my first time making ferrofluid from scratch. Getting the holes to actually be the right size for the irregularly sized glass objects was SO HARD.
I don’t suppose you know if any glass blowers guilds in 1400s - 1600s you could refer me to for research, or glass makers in general, or which broader guilds their craft may be Included in. Trying to do some research after seeing a generational glass blower. Thank you!
I would recommend you focus your research on the glassblowers of Murano in Venice. The Republic of Venice established a Glassmakers Guild in the 13th century, and because of the Guild's importance to the Venetian economy, enacted a number of laws to promote their interests.
Thus the Serene Republic banned the import of foreign glass or the employment of foreign glassworkers, set aside the island of Murano for the industry, encouraged glassblowers to marry into elite families, and made it illegal for glassblowers to emigrate.
The time has come, the walrus said...to post the TRSB (@tolkienrsb) art!
This is my first art for TRSB23. While I'd like to claim it was totally intentional that I made a palantir, it is partially a product of happy accident. (The bubbles in particular...)
I am so excited to see what @cycas wrote for it!
(I will be sharing the link just as soon as the collection is live.)