Everything new is old

[Dragonharper]

I just keep thinking about what I saw a the Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG). The oldest and most common decoration on worked glass had to be the Wrap and Rake. Looks cool thousands of years ago, still looks cool Today.

[hashmasta-kut]

was there wig wags too?

[Swampy]

was there wig wags too?

I'm sure I've seen a picture of that in Bandhu Dunham's Book volume 1. Like a 19th century cigar holder or something...

[oG Glocc Coma]

I'm sure I've seen a picture of that in Bandhu Dunham's Book volume 1. Like a 19th century cigar holder or something...

Yea, I was amazed by that thing

I'll snap a pic of it out my book


EDIT:
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/2128/img4361r.jpg

[jahglass]

Not quite Egyptian status- I thought the first one was from 1900 but I think its really 1990. The second one is 1928. Both Lauscha soft glass.

[hashmasta-kut]

cool, i saw the bandhu pic too, i have the book, but these are just hundreds of years old, not thousands? i was curious if anyone saw wigs from ancient egypt..

[Uriel]

not ancient egypt they were wrap and rake all the way, they were far too rough with their glass so making the headdy wags diddnt sit with them well.
Feeling that Cigar holder though.

[MPGB]

Just ask nomad. He'll tell you.

[Swampy]

Yea, I was amazed by that thing

I'll snap a pic of it out my book

[/IMG]

Thanks for doing the research. For those of you still using the outdated colonial units of measurement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units) it's just less than one inch diameter and about five inches long.

[Icarus]

See America. The rest of the worlds making fun of us. Can we please just go metric now!? Seriously, I know it'll take some of you like a week to learn it, but it's so much easier.

[Dragonharper]

We're now OT but... The only part of the Good Ol' USA that doesn't use metric is Manufacturing and the general public. All, or mostly all scientific and research facilities use Metric. Even US auto makers us metric as that is what their suppliers work in.

[Swampy]

Am I right in saying the US is the only country that still uses imperial measurement?

I remember the change to metrification in UK, it happened halfway through my engineering apprenticeship and the only thing that made it difficult was the folks trying to convert in their head to the old system, instead of trying to think only in the new units.

Here in Belize kids learn imperial in primary school and metric at highschool level, so they can work in both units.

Here's some more (http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/igls/hd_igls.htm) old stuff.

[sleepingpeople]

Ugh we do still use imperial measurement. just us i think.


Love that pic from contemp lampworking. When i saw it in my book i was just amazed!

[Swampy]

Me too, half because of the progressive technique and half because it was made in England :o)

Also the fact that it's always been in the American psyche to modify and develop something to it's fullest extent... especially in the sign world, even making motorcycles.

I mean making a wigwagged tube then rotate the axis through ninety degrees. Oh but wait the miniature vases shown above are from the Lauscha collection... looks like Kurt Walstab style?

[menty666]

I really wish we'd switch to metric, but only for selfish reasons; I suck at fractions. So that 3/32" and 5/8" crap drives me batty.

I can look at 4mm or 10mm rod and know it on sight.

[Swampy]

Or build a water tank and work out the enclosed volume in your head :o)

[dnug42]

back to w/r- who was it that said "hippies invented that style in the 80's" hummmmmmmm-
it totally is a rational image in da minds eye- like a nautilus...kinna...
goldy