Road Trip 2018, Part 8
Next stop on our road trip (still on the 2nd day) was Pukeberg, another of Sweden’s oldest and most well-preserved glassworks. Glass in a variety of different forms has been produced here since 1871, including household glassware, lamp glass and glass globes for petrol pumps, as well as beautiful art glassware.
Here we also found Riksglasskolan = The National School of Glass; and some of their projects on display at an exhibition.
In the giftshop I fell in love with this pendant, which I could not resist buying:
Because of the variety of colours the pendant goes well with a lot of items in my wardrobe. I especially love those peacock colours, though!
The pendant is beautiful. It looks like layers and layers of colors. And the building! I love all the ivy growing on the one side. And that little thing at the roof apex, what is it? LOVE the green and yellow glass, and the puppeteer! Reminds me of the hand of God.
ReplyDeleteIt's a small bell tower, Ginny. I'm not sure of the purpose but I suppose the bell may have been rung to mark the beginning and end of the working days, perhaps. (I've inserted an extra cropped image of it now so you can see it better.)
DeleteThanks to Blogland I can continue on my road trip at the same time as I travel along on yours as well! Love the colours in your new pendant and the glassworks.
ReplyDeleteIsn't the internet a marvelous invention ;) Thanks for visiting, Pauline
DeleteI'm loving the pendant, it's pretty! btw I came here through Graham's blog :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks Amy. Isn't blog networking fascinating. I haven't attempted to work out exactly how many of my blog acquaintances were made through the Edwards brothers, but I know it's quite a few! :)
Deleteboth buildings are so beautiful. I love that red barn look best.. and you know I love glass.. you are right, the pendant goes with just about anything...another place I would like to visit
ReplyDeleteSandra, I bet you'd love visiting all the glassworks in The Kingdom of Crystal (as the area is called)... We didn't visit them all, but four of them + the glass museum in Växjö + glass art in churches etc as well...
DeleteWe used to have quite a few glass factories in Scotland but they are few and far between now. However there has been a remarkable growth in artisan glass producers over recent decades.
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