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 ...

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 ...

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Luminous Brilliance: The Artistry of Zibo Glass at the National Museum of China displays a colorful world built over centuries by glass artists in Zibo, Shandong province. [Photo by Kang Yan/For China ...

Sini Majuri combines traditional techniques with modern tech to explore human nature. By Penelope Colston Reporting from Helsinki, Finland In her workshop on Suomenlinna, an island fortress begun in ...

While Murano's glassmaking sector has been notoriously male-dominated for centuries, its new wave of glassmakers and designers is young, inventive and female. The sound of techno-punk confirmed I was ...

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 ...

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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 ...

When glassmaker Isobel Waters works in the hot shop, using a blowpipe to form and shape molten glass bubbles, she often spends an entire four-hour shift on a single piece. The furnace temperature can ...