MOULDMAKING SHOP
Glass moulds are small pieces of art themselves.
This unique place and craft mirror the perfect permeation of
organic and inorganic worlds - wood and glass… Here, human hands,
necessarily using saws, lathes, chisels and other often
particular tools, transform fine beech wood or other good-quality
kinds into the shape of small pieces of art, which afterwards
serve masters glassblowers in forming glass works.
During the glassworks operation period, already hundreds, if not
thousands moulds were manufactured, stored under their names or
numbers in the company´s mould archive and waiting for their
reuse…
Nevertheless, wood isn´t the only material suitable for the
manufacture of glass moulds. In this shop, you can see working of
other special refractory materials, for example graphite. This
carbon-based material serves in particular for the manufacture of
smaller moulds of a more complex shape, with strict demands of
its keeping during manufacturing great numbers of pieces.
Besides, the glassworks itself is able to manufacture plaster,
metal, bronze or alumunium mould or have them made.
