Lauscha glass bird and Easter eggs glass granule technique

When we are waiting for spring, and the first gentle breeze is greeting us, these filigree forms of mouth-blown glass – a stylized bird and two Easter eggs – make for a charming decoration hanging in fresh twigs or the window. The dots of melted glass granules, small and large, in shades of red and pink reflect the light and cast colourful shadows into the room. The glassblower uses all his skills to draw the delicate hanging loops from the hollow glass forms.

Effortful handwork, as it is practiced in the Thuringian glass town of Lauscha for centuries, is in this Easter ornament. The hollow glass forms in granulate technique are created in three steps. In the first, crystal glass tubes are drawn into blanks before the flame. In these blanks is then filled with the colored glass granules - very finely ground glass - before in the final step first blank and colored glass particles are melted in front of the flame and then the object is mouth-blown to its final shape and formed free.

This product is an example of genuine handicraft; therefore, minor deviations in size and colour may occur.