The history of glass begins some 4 500 years before J.C.
It was discovered by Ph�niciens potters which cooked their pots on the edges of
the Mediterranean and made melt the shore sand. The birth of a part
begin with the choice from the color from its bubble. Opaque, transparent, or
well virgin of colors, this one will be seen and interpreted as a bottom on
which a decoration will be organized. Before posing this last, the
glass-maker will collect, i.e. coat this small bubble with color of transparent
white glass of one or several layers to be able with his own way to put a space
between this bottom and the decoration which he will come to take hot
thereafter. This stage with for goal to create a relief and to give a
direction of reading at piece-rates. Once the decoration posed, the
glass-maker last once will gather glass to cover totality with the part. There
starts works it of working. After a battle baited with fire - the
temperature of work of glass is 1 100 �C - the viscosity of this material, and
weightlessness, the form desired appears finally. This one finished once,
the glass-maker will detach the part of his cane to be blown to be able to take
again the latter by the other end, which will enable him to work the top.
Once the finished part, it will go in a furnace assembled to 520� C
approximately during several hours (from 15 to 48 hours following the thickness
of the part of glass). It is during this last descent in temperature that
the effects and all the colors which it contains will appear for the most
beautiful pleasure of the eyes.
