BLUE GLASS POPULAR

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 305, 11 December 1929, Page 9

BLUE GLASS POPULAR

This is the day of coloured glass, and they are as beautiful blues as ever there were. Not only has the very deep blue glass been revived, of which a few touches give character to a room, but a great deal in a paler shade is being used for dinner glasses, fruit salads, and so forth. This is almost exactly the colour of twelfth century window glass, as opposed to the deeper tone of the following hundred years. It has the same jewel like effect, especially when it is used for fruit or flowers, states an exchange. Very large vases are made of the lighter blue. Roses look charming in them, and so do such strong colourcontrasts as petunias and feraniums. For fruit salads, blue glass generally has a stem, and then a wide, shallow cup like that of a champagne <;lass. Filled with fruit, of which some at least must ba red; these again recall the stained glass window, with its touches v. bright blues and red Finally blue glass is freely used for toilette sots, sometimes in a blue which is nearly, but not quite, navy, and sometimes in a paler tone Now and again it is engraved with a smaller device in gold which may take the form of initials.