The Art of Glass Figurine Making

The Russian Store presents beautifully hand sculptured and designed glass figurines in a shape of different animals, birds, fish, and insects. Our master artisans from St. Petersburg, Russia have been handcrafting the highest quality and the best artistic variety of these glass figurines. Because each figurine is crafted by hand no two are exactly alike. All pieces are produced in limited quantities; therefore, they are especially precious and valuable to anyone's collection.

A truly marvelous glass figurine would certainly make a wonderful enrichment to your collection or make someone special feel grateful for such gift as this one! Beautiful figurines, made of hand-blown glass, are very elegant-looking. During the many-stepped production process this small charm has been completely hand-sculptured and designed.

There is a wide option of glass figurines of various forms and coloring, made in the spirit of national traditions, presented at The Russian Store. These decorative articles, many of which are of unique nature, will beautify your interior, both classic and modern, and be able to give delight to you and your guests with its smooth and soft lines, expressiveness and refinement, brilliance of light and historical content.

The main techniques of glass figurines performance are blowing into a mold by hand-blowing technique and pressing, as they are the oldest methods that require special mastery and artistic taste. These artists create highly artistic compositions, giving to the items the endlessly diverse shapes. While the glass is molten, different complicated chemical elements and substances are added for its coloring in different tints. Hand blowing with help of a glass-blowing tube allows creating glass figurines characterizing the mastery of each performer.

Russian masters traditionally use many decorating techniques over a hot article. Among them are "natsvet" - decoration of colored glass over colorless one, sulfide glass, satin glass, "irrization" - pellicle iridescent with different colors, crackle - like "frost", colored spread, glass thread and so on.

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