So, Jason has left Glassroots and Ron Johnson is for now lead glassblower. My benchmate, Charlie Willis, had a relapse of his sciatica and had back surgery, which puts him out of glassblowing until September. In order to keep working with hot glass I now take lessons with Ron. The lef...
by Ruth Webb Lee in her groundbreaking reference work “Early American Pressed Glass” (1931 and later editions) from a personal conversation she had with an elderly knowledgeable Pittsburgh-area glassblower. Crystal Glass Company made mostly pressed glass tableware items (usually classed under “Early...