Lovely 🤩 One of my fave 99% Invisible podcast episodes (other than the one with Caroline Criado-Perez about her insanely good book called “Invisible Women”) was the one on sand. Made me buy another audio book called “The world in a grain” which I haven’t listened to yet. It is marvelous and precious indeed. So sad it’s now both mundane and yet another reason we’re destroying our planet.
Prunted glass goblets are still made by glassblowers in Bohemia. They're replicas, of course, and the source of the green glass they used is recycled beer bottles, so the color is a little different than the glass seen in museums. You can find the goblets for sale in museum shops, along the touristy streets of Prague and other popular destination cities, at historical festivals (where the clientele is almost all Czech), and, if you know where to go, at the glassblowers' workshops tucked away in little villages.
Lovely 🤩 One of my fave 99% Invisible podcast episodes (other than the one with Caroline Criado-Perez about her insanely good book called “Invisible Women”) was the one on sand. Made me buy another audio book called “The world in a grain” which I haven’t listened to yet. It is marvelous and precious indeed. So sad it’s now both mundane and yet another reason we’re destroying our planet.
Coincidentally, I re-found Invisible Women in my book-stack this afternoon
Prunted glass goblets are still made by glassblowers in Bohemia. They're replicas, of course, and the source of the green glass they used is recycled beer bottles, so the color is a little different than the glass seen in museums. You can find the goblets for sale in museum shops, along the touristy streets of Prague and other popular destination cities, at historical festivals (where the clientele is almost all Czech), and, if you know where to go, at the glassblowers' workshops tucked away in little villages.
They would be beautiful in darker green. I love the green of beer bottles- 'Kelly green'
Harmonies of "The Voice Squad" - precious as antique glass. Thank you for letting me discover that.