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- Petri Dish with Silica Sand, Used by Paul Stankard, 2010-2015 - Paperweight artist Paul Stankard creates small botanical worlds in glass. Using a technique called flame working, Stankard melts rods of glass--pulled and shaped with tweezers and other tools--to fashion amazingly lifelike tiny flowers, insects, and even human figures. These "inclusions" are then encased in a glass mold to produce a paperweight.
- 2010-2015
- Collections - Artifact
Petri Dish with Silica Sand, Used by Paul Stankard, 2010-2015
Paperweight artist Paul Stankard creates small botanical worlds in glass. Using a technique called flame working, Stankard melts rods of glass--pulled and shaped with tweezers and other tools--to fashion amazingly lifelike tiny flowers, insects, and even human figures. These "inclusions" are then encased in a glass mold to produce a paperweight.
- Petri Dish with Glass Inclusions, Used by Paul Stankard, 2010-2015 - Paul Stankard, renowned paperweight artist of the Studio Glass movement, uses a technique called flame working to create what he calls "inclusions"--amazingly lifelike tiny flowers, insects, and even human figures made of glass. Stankard fashions these "inclusions" from commercially available rods of glass--a process perfected only after hours of trial and error. He then encases them into a glass mold, to produce a paperweight.
- 2010-2015
- Collections - Artifact
Petri Dish with Glass Inclusions, Used by Paul Stankard, 2010-2015
Paul Stankard, renowned paperweight artist of the Studio Glass movement, uses a technique called flame working to create what he calls "inclusions"--amazingly lifelike tiny flowers, insects, and even human figures made of glass. Stankard fashions these "inclusions" from commercially available rods of glass--a process perfected only after hours of trial and error. He then encases them into a glass mold, to produce a paperweight.