Glassmakers

Alsterfors

Alsterfors - Scandinavian glass / Swedish glass. The company was started by J A Gottwald who started making making glass in what used to be an old iron foundry in the 1880s. Alsterfors became members of the association of Swedish crystal...

Aseda Glasbruk

Aseda Glasbruk was a mid 20th century glass factory that operated in the town of Aseda Sweeden. Their head designer was Bo Borgstrom, he was a widely acclaimed as a ceramics artist before joining Aseda in 1961. Aseda Glasbruk was incorporated into...

Baccarat

Baccarat 1734 - to present. In 1734 King Louis XV of France gave permission to found a glassworks in the town of Baccarat in the Lorraine region in Eastern france. Upto 1816 production consisted of window panes, mirrors and stoneware. Then in 1816...

Bagley Glass

Bagley Glass 1871-1975. Also Bagley Glass and Co. Bagley's glass began as a bottle making factory in Yorkshire England. It's heyday was between the two world wars 1918-1939. It went on to make a wide range of inexpensive domestic glassware...

Bohemian Glass

Bohemian Glass Glass made in the region of Bohemia - part of the Czech republic formerly Czechoslovakia. It has a long history in glass making, due to the natural resources found in the countryside. Bohemian crystal became famous for its excellent...

Borske Sklo

Borske Sklo - Glass

Caithness Glass

Founded by Robin Sinclair in Wick, North East Scotland in 1961. Creators of art glass and glass paperweights. Their paperweights have a following among collectors the world over. Caithness Glass is the world's leading producer of fine-quality glass...

Carnival Glass

Carnival glass is moulded or pressed glass, always with a pattern and always with a shiny, metallic, 'iridescent' surface shimmer. A wide range of colours and colour combinations were used but the most common colours accounted for a large proportion...

Chance glass

Chance Brothers and Company was a glassworks and a leading glass manufacturer and pioneer of British glassmaking technology. They founded their business in Spon Lane, Smethwick in 1824 in the West Midlands. Chance Brothers became the first company...

Cranberry Glass

Cranberry glass or 'Gold Ruby' glass is a red glass made by adding gold salts or colloidal gold to molten glass. It's heyday was in the 19th century Victorian era. Legend holds that cranberry glass was first discovered when a noble tossed a gold coin...

Dartington Glass

Dartington Glass. Based in Torrington, North Devon. Manufacturers of crystal glass using traditional hand-making glass blowing techniques. Since the 1970s Dartington glass has had a modern contemporary image rather than the old fashioned image of...

Daum

Daum Crystal and Art Glass, France

Davidson Glass

Davidson Glass. Founded by George Davidson in 1867. George Davidson built a glass factory in Team Valley, Gateshead in the North East of England. Initially for the production of oil lamp chimneys, they then went on to make a wide range of pressed...

Formia Murano

Formia is one of the largest companies on the island of Murano, Italy producing handmade glass today. Founded in 1962 by two master glass masters, Formentello and Mian.

Holmegaard

Holmegaard - Glassmaker, Holmegaard glass. Danish glassworks. In 1825 Count Christian Danneskiold-Samsøe sought permission from the King of Denmark to establish a glassworks at Holmegaard Mose. However the Count died before receiving an answer. His...

Karl Palda

The firm of Karl Palda was founded in 1888 in Haida, Nový Bor, Bohemia. A well respected Art Deco glass manufacturer. Well known maker of geometric designed pieces in particular decanters, decanter sets, vases, candlesticks, vanity sets, toilet...

Kosta Glass

Kosta glasbruk was founded in 1741 and is one of the world’s oldest, still operating glassworks. Founded by Anders Koskull and Georg Bogislaus Staël von Holstein. Over time Kosta became Sweden's leading manufacturing glassworks of all types of...

Kosta Boda

Kosta Boda Glass. Glass manufacturers in Sweden. The glassworks in Kosta was founded in 1742 in the Swedish province of Småland. Since 1898, art and crystal glass for everyday use has been produced under the brand of Orrefors.

Lalique Glass

Lalique - Founded by renowned glassmaker and jeweller René Lalique in 1888. He opened his own workshop on Place Gaillon in Paris in 1888. Within a decade he was amongst the best-known Parisian jewellers. In 1907 Lalique began producing ornate...

Legras

Legras Glass - French Glass Maker. Founded by Auguste Legras in 1864 after taking over the St. Denis glassworks. Inspired by Emile Galle, Legras decided to seriously concentrate on producing Art Nouveau style glass. After his retirement the company...

Loetz Glass

Loetz Glass. Producers of European art glass. Founded in the Czech Republic. This foremost Bohemian glass house produced primarily iridescent wares during its most successful period. After changing hands several times the glassworks in the southern...

Marc Lalique

Marc Lalique was the son of René Lalique. After the death of his father Marc took over the business under the new name of M.Lalique and later as Cristal Lalique. At this time Lalique transitioned to producing lead glass (crystal). After Marc's...

Mary Gregory Glass

Mary Gregory (1856–1908)[1] was an American artist known for her decoration of glass products. She worked at the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She worked there between 1880-1884. Well known for paintings of children...

Mdina Art Glass

Mdina Glass was founded on in the Maltese town of Mdina by Michael Harris in 1968 along with his friend Eric Dobson. The company produced free formed organic glassware and was a instant success with the tourists. Michael Harris left Mdina Glass in...

Monart

Monart Glass was made in Scotland between 1924-1961 by Salvador Ysart a Spanish glass worker and his sons. Made in an industrial glassworks in Perth owned by John Moncrief. It was a collaboration between Salvador Ysart and the wife of John Moncrief...

Murano

Murano Glass has been made on the Venetian island of Murano for centuries. Their glassmakers developed and improved many technologies including crystalline glass, enamelled glass (smalto), goldstone, multicolored glass (millefiori), milk glass...

Nailsea

Nailsea Glass. Founded by John Robert Lucas in 1788 in Nailsea Somerset. Trading as "Nailsea Crown Glass and Glass Bottle Manufacturers". Nailsea art Glass was made from the glass left over at the end of the day such as rolling pins, pipes, jugs,...

Okra

Okra Studio Glass was founded in 1979 by Richard Golding & Nicola Osbourne. Manufacturer of hollow glass. Okra has been in continuous production since 1979. A very successful art glass studio which in the late 1990s was bought out by Moorcroft.

Orrefors

Orrefors - Swedish Glass Makers of high-quality crystal glassware and art glass. Founded in 1898 in the Swedish village Orrefors in Småland. Their products include crystal stemware, barware, vases, and sculptures and lighting products in crystal....

Rene Lalique

French glass designer. Born 1860, died 1945. Rene Lalique was amongst the world's most renowned glassmakers. Lalique was one of France's foremost Art Nouveau jewellery designers. Rene Lalique is known for his creations of perfume bottles, vases,...

Stevens and Williams

Stevens & Williams was an English glass company located in Stourbridge, established in 1776 under the name of Honeybourne. The company was noted in the 1880s for its cameo glass when the studio was run by John Northwood, who was also known for his...

Stuart Crystal

Stuart Crystal, Wordsley, West Midlands Founded by Frederick Stuart in the 1880s and later by his sons. A successful company until 1995 when it was purchased by Waterford Wedgwood. In 2001 Stuart Crystal ceased production. They are to be credited...

Thomas Webb

Thomas Webb | Glassmaker Thomas Webb was an English glassmaker and the founded Thomas Webb & Sons in 1837 - makers of fine English glass and crystal.

Waterford Crystal

Waterford crystal - Glass makers. Founded by brothers George and William Penrose in 1783. Named after the city of Waterford, Ireland. They were producers of extremely fine flint glass and had acquired an unequalled reputation for it's glass. The...

Webb Corbett

Webb Corbett Glass was set up by Herbert Webb and Thomas Webb III along with George Harry Corbett in 1897 at the Wordsley glass works near Stourbridge, England. Webb Corbett were manufacturers of high quality cut lead crystal tableware and vases. The...

Whitefriars Art Glass

Whitefriars Glass also known as James Powell and Sons, were English glassmakers, leadlighters and stained glass window manufacturers. The Whitefriars Glass Company is a small glassworks off Fleet Street in London, believed to have been established...