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GLASSBLOWING COURSES
We are taking bookings now for our introductory one day hot glass making taster courses. Come and experience for yourself the excitement of hot glassblowing, in the heart of Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire.
Discover the properties of molten glass, the use of colour, how to blow a bubble, and make your first paperweight and vase, and collect your finished pieces to take home with you the very next day!
Course fee: only £200 for one-to-one teaching, including all materials.
To find out more, and download a booking form click:
GLASS BLOWING COURSE
Welcome to my web site, and enjoy a wander through the following pages to find out more about myself and my studio. When I started eight years ago, this was the first hot glass studio and workshop in Nottinghamshire, and thousands of visitors have now discovered how glass is blown and what artistic pieces can be made by such an exciting and traditional method by visiting the studio here at Edwinstowe.
For those of you who are able to visit Firefly Glass here in Sherwood Forest there are glass-blowing demonstrations most days and there is an ever-changing choice of individual pieces to buy from the gallery, but for those further afield I hope the following pages will give you a taste of the excitement and vibrancy of this ancient craft.
The heat and smells of a live glass workshop may be missing from a web site, but I hope that the deep colours and subtle translucency of my glass pieces are able to speak for themselves, and encourage you to visit.
Dan Aston
If you own a shop or gallery and would like to buy and sell Firefly Glass, please contact Dan by email, phone or fax for a catalogue and price list. A copy can also be downloaded from this page and printed off on your own printer. Phone Dan on
01623 824003 with your details and for information on how to enable access.
A completely new development for 2008 - beautiful indoor water features incorporating traditional copper or a more contemporary stainless steel framework with individually designed handblown glass leaves over which the water falls gently into a wide metal bowl filled with hollow blown pebbles in a glowing array of colours.
If you want want to make a statement about your home office or foyer this a definite wow factor!
Comissions undertaken for architects and private clients for domestic, commercial and public buildings.
The water feature pictured is about 3.5 feet high but they they can be made smaller or much larger to suit each client's needs. Phone or email Dan for a design and quote.
Paperweight decoration for all the family
Paperweight decoration - design and decorate one yourself! Choose your colour of paperweight from a wide selection made in the studio, add sticker stencils creatively to the piece, then have your own design sandblast etched. Available weekdays and weekends - it's great fun!!
Paperweight decoration bookings taken for organised groups, schools, family birthdays etc. You can also combine this with a glass blowing demonstration at a small extra charge. Please phone 01623 824003 to book your date, and ask for Dan.
Droplet paperweights
Three sea wave bottles
The programme was broadcast in early February 2006
You can view a movie extracted from the original programme - click view movie
Cast ovoid candle holders
We make handmade glass awards, and also handmade glass awards in Sherwood Forest. These glass awards handmade in Sherwood Forest are made specially for each customer. In addition Firefly Glass makes handmade coloured glass awards,special glass presentation pieces and also glass handmade trophies, corporate gift glass awards and trophies, glass corporate gifts, individual awards, individual glass awards, individual glass corporate gifts, handmade individual glass trophies. We also produce crystal glass trophies and awards, unique crystal glass awards and trophies, handmade unique crystal trophies and awards. We also make special glass individual awards, and individual awards. Also produced are glass corporate gifts, individual corporate gifts in the UK.
The Firefly Glass glass school for glass blowing courses, glass blowing lessons, including taster courses in glass making for beginners in glass making. One day taster courses in glass making are available for novice glass blowers, come to Sherwood Forest home of Robin Hood to Firefly Glass hot glass studios, for beginners courses in glass blowing, and more advanced glass making lessons, both glass making courses and taster courses in glass blowing are available all the year at Firefly Glass UK, hot glass making courses available for individuals or small groups at Firefly Glass, the ideal place for hot glassblowing taster courses in Sherwood Forest. We do glass blowing taster lessons, hot glass courses and a one day taster course.
For handmade crystal glass in Sherwood Forest, and a glass blowing studio in Sherwood Forest Nottinghamshire visit Firefly Glass. For hot blown glass UK, blown glass made at Firefly Glass in Robin Hood country is the place to go in Nottinghamshire. Robin Hood UK has a glass gallery in Sherwood Forest which is the Firefly Glass glass gallery, displaying studio crystal glass and craft glass UK, crystal glass UK, crystal glass, glass blowing, glass blowing UK. For blown glass, blown glass UK, handmade bowls and vases UK, paperweights, paperweights UK and studio glass UK visit the Firefly Glass studio here in north Nottinghamshire. This studio glass, and hot glass studio UK, makes glass bowls and vases. For hot glass UK, and glass making, and glass making UK, there is a wide range of glass paperweights, at the Nottinghamshire Firefly Glass studio. For hot blown glass, glass design, glass UK, and a glass gallery, glass gallery UK, and blown glass in Sherwood Forest, as well as blown glass in Robin Hood country, glass vases, glass bowls, these can all be seen at Firefly Glass.
Firefly Glass in Sherwood Forest Nottinghamshire makes dichroic glass jewellery, bangles, bracelets, rings, pendants, cufflinks, brooches, and also dichroic glass bangles, dichroic glass bracelets, dichroic glass rings, dichroic glass pendants, dichroic glass cufflinks, dichroic glass brooches. This glass jewellery, together with glass bangles, glass bracelets, glass rings, and glass pendants, glass cufflinks, glass brooches, are all handmade dichroic glass jewellery, and handmade glass jewellery.