The Art Of Glassblowing
Had the opportunity recently to just sit and watch an artist
perform the beautiful technique known as glassbowling.
Looks and certainty is more than mind blowing to
me.
Ray Keller of Keller Glass Blowing of Reeders, Pa. had a
booth on the midway at the recently completed Wayne County Fair where he
displayed his amazing talent in molding glass into many various and beautifully
decorated displays.
The Keller family all work together in this business with
Ray's wife Roberta hand painting with glass stain and their son, Dylan following
in his father and grandfather's footsteps making him the third generation glass
artist.
Glassblowing or the practice of blowing glass may seem hip
and modern if you've recently hit up or saw an exhibition by the Keller family,
but the technique of glassblowing has actually been around since
antiquity.
Although not as old as simpler methods like bead making or
cutting and carving shapes from larger pieces of glass, glassblowing has been
very popular since the time of the Roman Empire.
First century B. C. Syrians are most likely credited with
the discovery that glass could be blown from the end of a hollow tube into
different shapes or molds.
Glassblowers today say that glassblowing techniques have
evolved little since then while new technologies have introduced more modern
equipment but that the fundamentals of glassblowing remain the
same.
Ray Keller's glass creations are handmade out of Pyrex
glass.
Family tradition is important and it's good to know that
glass artist Dylan will take this popular family business into the next
century.
Photo Identification
Glassblowing artist Ray Keller of Keller Glass Blowing of
Reeders, Pa. performing at the Wayne County Fair. Some of his beautiful work is
on the table below the flame.
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