Sentence examples for glassworker from inspiring English sources
noun
One who makes glasswork.
An engraver and glassworker in Holland, Drebbel turned to applied science and in 1604 went to England, where King James I became his patron.
Liberty worked with three artisans — Tammy Newhof, a glassworker in Grand Rapids, Mich.; Sue Salvaterra Hintz, a potter in Weaverville, N.C.; and Matt Waldrop, a metalworker in Zirconia, N.C.
To restore Cornell's vast collection — bought from the Blaschkas themselves in 1885 — a glassworker, Elizabeth R. Brill, has painstakingly cleaned each piece and glued back fragmented gills and wayward tentacles.
As I left, I spotted a glassworker pushing a wheelbarrow of glass shards, his back glistening with sweat.
The Venetians were making glass by the eighth century, but the flourishing of the craft was linked to the arrival of Byzantine glassworkers fleeing Constantinople's occupation by the Crusaders in 1204 and by the Ottomans in 1453.
The first known French glassworkers in Nevers were Jean Prestereau (1595) and his son Léon.
1882 Troyes, France 1960 Troyes, France Maurice Marinot, (born 1882, Troyes, Fr. died 1960, Troyes), French painter and glassmaker who was one of the first 20th-century glassworkers to exploit the aesthetic qualities of weight and mass and one of the first to incorporate bubbles and other natural flaws as elements of design.
Syrian glassworkers, however, seem to have migrated wherever demand promised a ready market, and some masters of mold blowing appear to have moved to Italy early in the 1st century ad; in the course of that century Italy became an important glass-producing area.
Glassworkers migrating from Egypt to Syria after the fall of the Egyptian Fāṭmid dynasty in 1171 may have laid the foundation of the Syrian art of enamelled and gilt glass.
Damascus fell finally in 1400, and it is recorded that the glassworkers of that city were carried into captivity in Samarkand.
Syrian glassworkers appear to have developed blow molding in the 1st century bc.
