While it might be better known for its history of auto manufacturing, Indiana has a storied background of glassmaking, and ...

Every Wednesday, students and faculty of the Brown-Rhode Island School of Design community gather to appreciate the art of glassmaking at RISD’s “Hotnights,” a program held by RISD’s glass department ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rebecca Ann Hughes covers travel, culture and food in Europe. Glassmaking might have you thinking of the Venetian island of Murano ...

A glassworker crafts an orb at a factory in Murano, the iconic glass-producing island in Venice, Italy. Optical glasses contain barium, which increases the refractive index, allowing for thinner ...

The sun, when it peeked out from behind the clouds, glinted off a rainbow of cobalts, greens, ambers, yellows, and pinks at the Museum of Connecticut Glass, Inc. on May 21. The museum’s annual show ...

SAN ANTONIO — Ancient Mesopotamians have traditionally been credited with inventing glassmaking around 3,600 years ago. But Mesopotamians may have created second-rate knock-offs of glass objects from ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In Norfolk, Va., the Chrysler Museum of Art’s Perry Glass Studio, an educational facility for glassmaking, will open a new addition this summer. That will be followed by a renovation of the existing ...

The majestic steel beams of a soaring office tower beginning to rise from the ruins of the World Trade Center are a tribute to American resilience, but also a marker in the decline of yet another ...

PERRYSBURG, Ohio /HARLOW, United Kingdom,, March 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- -- O-I Glass, Inc. (“O-I Glass” or “O-I”) has recently successfully completed a groundbreaking trial in its plant in ...

An innovation coach at Central Nine Career Center is taking stained glass to another level — travelling the world to ...

Archaeologist have reconstructed a 3,000-year-old glassmaking furnace, suggesting that Ancient Egyptian technology was more advanced than previously thought. It was previously thought that the Ancient ...