Johansfors Glasbruk
Encyclopedia
Johansfors Glasbruk is a Swedish
glass
maker
founded in 1891. The current factory with glassblowing
and glass furnaces was built in 1955 at the same place where it began in 1891. The factory is also a shop and a museum.
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
glass
Glass
Glass is an amorphous solid material. Glasses are typically brittle and optically transparent.The most familiar type of glass, used for centuries in windows and drinking vessels, is soda-lime glass, composed of about 75% silica plus Na2O, CaO, and several minor additives...
maker
Glass production
Glass production involves two main methods - the float glass process, which produces sheet glass, and glassblowing which produces bottles and other containers.-Glass container factories:...
founded in 1891. The current factory with glassblowing
Glassblowing
Glassblowing is a glassforming technique that involves inflating molten glass into a bubble, or parison, with the aid of a blowpipe, or blow tube...
and glass furnaces was built in 1955 at the same place where it began in 1891. The factory is also a shop and a museum.