WONDER GLASS BLOWER
To watch the deft, and quickly-moving fingeis of the Wonder Class Blower at the i’abiierMon North Show daily will be to realise that, the age of oralteniansliip _ is far from past. Indeed, the chief teeling of those who see this exhibition will lie one of bewilderment lhat brittle glass can be made so tractable and blown into such beam iful and artistic creations while molten. Old Dutch smoking pipes that seem in i w it— t in all directions, full-rigged .-ailing ships, ornamental vases, graceful swans, kangaroo.-, glass that floats in the air like feathery crystals, spun gla-s finer than silk, and thousands of feet in length, arc sonic of the articles that appear in a few moments under the delicate touch and sure-ill,-,s of breath of this talented artiste, who uses no moulds of any kind to fashion i these beautiful works of art. A’i-itors to the Show will do well to see this educational and entertaining feature.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 163, 12 June 1939, Page 4
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162WONDER GLASS BLOWER Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 163, 12 June 1939, Page 4
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