Restoration Glass

Originally known as crown glass, restoration glass is now made using the cylinder process (known as broad or sheet glass). Restoration glass manufactured like this is used in restoration projects that would once have utilised crown glass.

Molten glass is gathered on the end of a blowpipe and placed on a block of wood. The glass is blown and then re-heated. The craftsman swings the glass "pipe" in a vertical plane until it is elongated into a cylinder. The cylinder is then split lengthways.

The split glass is then heated again and flattened on a smooth stone and then annealed.

The colour range can be limitless allowing the glass to be used ecclesiastically, commercially, domestically and for restoration purposes.

Molten glass is gathered on then end of a blowpipe and is then heated.

Glass is continually blown and spun into a globe.

Molten glass is heated between shaping.

Highly skilled glassblowing and re-heating produces a long cylinder.

Restoration glass cylinders are allowed to cool. They are then cut lengthways, flattened, and heated again to anneal them.