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How does a Mats Jonasson have glass block

The Swedish glassworks Mats Jonasson is famous for the world for its glass blocks. Mats Jonasson has found the Glasblöcklen an ideal way three-dimensional and almost lifelike be the most different motifs of fauna and flora present. We are often asked why, how are the glass blocks. This is in principle very simple:

• In the first step, a carved wooden form that contains the subject. The challenge here is wrong or the motive as fine as possible to work out. The more accurate the shape was carved, the more accurate the location is similar to the later reality.
  
  
• second step is to bubble-free pouring of the mold with crystal. After cooling, this is simply reversed. The finished glass blank block can be removed.
  
  
• Last step is to paint by hand . This is done on the back of the glass block by means of very fine brush. The glass artist will need a very steady hand and patience.

What sounds so simple, requires many years of practice. And it requires the interaction of different disciplines. The wood carver decisive for the later appearance of glass blocks. The smallest error affects this devastating. Can it be a form widely used in more than once.

on the skill of the glassblower it is, whether free of bubbles, that is cast without air bubbles or not. This skill is attainable only with much practice. This also explains why the formation of a glass blower takes several years.

Last but not least, is the glass artist and glass painters that give the glass block in the truest sense of the word, the final touch. One wrong brush stroke and the work is gone.

So lets inferred that this form of production really genuine factory operation represents. For if something is not machine accessible. This also explains why from time to time may occur depending on the order situation longer delivery times. A factory can now produce not even a thousand or more pieces per day.