Paul Claudel, the French poet sang it in the listening eye Glass, that material born from the magic and the combination of four elements .
Claudel was perfectly right : is it not magical that fire produced out of by means of sand
and air blowing to see glass appearing ; this solidified liquid , that is fashioned by stretching »
the origin of glass goes back to the dawn of times , in that privileged land of the middle east where man was a nomad first then he became a sedentary agent .He had to live , survive, organize himself , discover by chance glass in the fifth millennium BC in Syria
It is in Mesopotamia, where the first phials or glass vases were designed in old fashion and rolled up on a sand stone, would be found.
Starting from this discovery, nothing would stop this conquest of the planet (world).
In the history of glass carving, the discovery of blow pipe invited just before the Christian era.
In Poenicia will revolutionize the glassblowers’ world. For 2000 years, blow piping has produced a style to a type of glassware= glassblowing made .
In reality the glass art with its acknowledged master-pieces has set anew this extraordinary material: have changed from top to bottom born from sand and fire heat seven thousand years ago.
What did Claudel (1868-1955) say about it ? :
But before glass,
The architect from the layout that he knows
Builds the stone device
Similar to a filter in the light stream of water
And gives the whole building its Orient
Like a well oriented pearl...
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